14 October 2010 – A sunburst image of a particle detector at Germany’s DESY laboratory and a black-and-white photograph of a nuclear-physics experiment at TRIUMF in Canada have won the top prizes in the first-ever Global Particle Physics Photowalk. More than 100 of the top photographs from the photowalk, including the six winners of the […]
Your chance to influence the Project Design Guidance
At the end of 2012, the Global Design Effort (GDE) will release its Technical Design Report. At the same time, the Research Directorate (RD) and the ILC community will produce detailed baseline designs for two detectors. What then? A conceptual supporting model of a multinational-laboratory This is the question being addressed by the International Linear […]
From CERN: CMS observes a potentially new and interesting effect
After almost six months of operation, experiments at the LHC are starting to see signs of potentially new and interesting effects. In results announced by the CMS collaboration today, correlations have been observed between particles produced in 7 TeV proton-proton collisions. In some of the LHC’s proton-proton collisions, a hundred or more particles can be […]
From Fermilab: Fermilab constructs pioneering accelerator test facility
Batavia, Ill.—Officials at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that the laboratory has started phase II of the construction of a pioneering facility to advance a technology that will be critical to the next generation of particle accelerators. The new facility, which will occupy three buildings and host a 460-foot-long test […]
From DESY: European XFEL accelerator components go into production
China reaching the target gradient
PKU3, the first nine-cell cavity in China reaching a gradient usable for the ILC, in JLab clean room before vertical test. Image: Fumio Furuta A 1.3-gigahertz TESLA-type nine-cell niobium superconducting cavity, named PKU3, as the third nine-cell cavity fabricated by the superconducting radiofrequency (RF) group at Peking University, Beijing, China, achieved an accelerating gradient of […]
Summer Challenge programme for young intelligence
Summer Challenge poster About 90 students from all parts of Japan gathered at the Summer Challenge programme held at KEK, Tsukuba from 21 to 29 August 2010. Starting in 2007, this programme intended for junior students who are interested in high-energy physics was the fourth in the series this year. “The aim of the Summer […]
From KEK Highlights: Never lost in translation
Every day, KEK welcomes scientists and students from around the world. Some of them come here as collaborators who work on the international projects and programmes using cutting-edge facilities at KEK. Some visit as users who wish to use the beamlines at the Photon Factory to look into the smallest worlds. Many graduate students will […]
From Fermilab: Fermilab experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
Batavia, Ill.—New constraints on the elusive Higgs particle are more stringent than ever before. Scientists of the CDF and DZero collider experiments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermilab revealed their latest Higgs search results today (July 26) at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, held in Paris from July 22-28. Their results rule […]
From CERN: ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC
Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – are today […]