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Past successes in superconducting RF are a good omen for the ILC

Hasan Padamsee and Charles Reece highlight successes in the evolution of superconducting RF technology and look to ILC and future developments.

| 26 February 2009

One of the high-value R&D programmes for the ILC is to reliably reach gradients of 35 Megavolts per metre (MV/m) in one-metre long (9-cell, 1.3-Gigahertz) niobium cavities, the heart of the main linac. More than a dozen such cavities have demonstrated gradients between 35 and 40 MV/m at DESY, and more recently at Jlab. The […]

From Fermilab: Collaboration between Fermilab, Indian institutions sets stage for future accelerators

| 26 February 2009

INDORE, India (February 10, 2009) – The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., today announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with four Indian institutions. The MOU establishes collaboration in the areas of superconducting acceleration science and technology and in research and development of superconducting materials. “Ushering in the […]

From CERN: CERN management confirms new LHC restart schedule

| 12 February 2009

Geneva, 9 February 2009. CERN1 management today confirmed the restart schedule for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resulting from the recommendations from last week’s Chamonix workshop. The new schedule foresees first beams in the LHC at the end of September this year, with collisions following in late October.  A short technical stop has also been […]

From Jefferson Lab News: ILC treatment of JLab cavity garners exciting result

| 5 February 2009

For the last few years, Jefferson Lab staff members have used the lab’s unique facilities to test various accelerator components for a proposed next-generation collider, the International Linear Collider. Reminiscent of a stack of doughnuts, accelerator components called cavities energize particles for use in experiments that explore the smallest bits of matter. In preparing ILC […]

From SLAC Today: Groovy Beam Pipe Update

| 29 January 2009

Something unwanted lurks within accelerator beam pipes around the world: stray electrons. This haze of electrons interacts with positron and proton beams, often causing distortion. Previous tests showed that an insert designed by SLAC researchers works well to capture stray electrons in an environment with no magnetic field. Now, recent tests carried out at the […]

From symmetry breaking: Project X collaboration forms, experiment moves forward

| 15 January 2009

Project X, a Fermilab-hosted international accelerator facility, could break ground as soon as 2013. A potential location for Project X at Fermilab. Accelerator experts from around the world gathered at Fermilab last month to work toward establishing a formal collaboration and further plans for Fermilab’s proposed proton accelerator. At the meeting held Nov. 21-22, more […]

Announcement: TILC09 will be held in Tsukuba next April

| 18 December 2008

April is the best time to visit Japan – nice and warm weather, cherry blossoms and lively atmosphere of starting a new fiscal year – and of course, TILC09! A worldwide meeting of physicists on the ILC accelerator, experiments and theory to further the ILC’s Technical Design Phase. Epochal Tsukuba: the conference venue for TILC09 […]

From SLAC Today: Marx Modulator Begins Testing in End Station B

| 4 December 2008

This week SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory moves one step closer to producing an innovative new piece of the International Linear Collider. The first-generation model of a new design for equipment that helps power the accelerator is moving from the SLAC Power Conversion Department to End Station B, where it will undergo long-term testing. The new […]

From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: SRF technology comes full circle

| 26 November 2008

Accelerator builders should step back and re-assess decades of R&D into superconducting RF technology says Jefferson Lab’s Ganapati Rao Myneni. Nearly a half-century ago, researchers at Stanford University began investigating superconducting RF (SRF) acceleration. They would not have been surprised to learn that by 1994, SRF had come into large-scale use in Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam […]