R&D on monolithic and vertically integrated pixel detectors
Micro Magic 3D-layout of the 3-tier Fermilab Vertical Integrated Pixel (VIP) chip. Plans are taking shape to form a new group to coordinate and stimulate R&D on monolithic and vertically integrated pixel detectors for scientific applications in high-energy physics and beyond. In a joint message, the directorates of CERN, KEK and Fermilab have offered their […]
“Particle physics is at a crossroads,” said Chairperson Albrecht Wagner of the International Committee for Future Accelerators, in the opening moments of the ninth ICFA Seminar last Tuesday in Kavli Auditorium. “The Standard Model stands triumphant,” Wagner said, “yet incomplete.” Evidence from past and present particle accelerators supports the Standard Model of the fundamental particles […]
The XFEL mock-up tunnel helps scientists practice for the real thing
It feels like the real accelerator tunnel, but it’s only building 71 at DESY in Hamburg. It’s basically a tube made of concrete, 51 metres long and 5.20 metres in diameter. One accelerator module hangs from the top of the tube, water pipes, cable trays and ventilation ducts are installed and other accelerator parts stand […]
With the activation of the LHC, or Large Hadron Collider, some particle physicists are now looking forward to the next big machine. For many, that’s the International Linear Collider. The ILC aims to break new ground in particle physics by slamming a beam of electrons into a beam of the electron’s alter ego: the positron. […]
Today's issue features a guest story by Marcel Stanitzki, experimentalist working at Rutherford Appleton Lab in the UK and member of the SiD collaboration.
A computer model of what a future SiD detector would look like. Graphic: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) A 3-D model of the detector was present during all the talks. (Photo: Jim Brau) The push-pull configuration worked out for SiD. Graphics: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) The third SiD Workshop this year, hosted from 17 to […]
Today's issue features a guest essay by James Wells, a theorist working at CERN who specialises in physics beyond the Standard Model.
Much of the history of particle physics has been devoted almost exclusively to finding out what our bodies are made of. We first learned about protons and electrons and neutrons because they constitute the matter that makes up our bodies, and we learned of photons (light) because it interacts with our bodies when we see. […]
Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN1 was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a key moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific […]
An IEEE Conference satellite workshop starts at DESY
Faster, higher, farther! The motto of this year’s Olympic Games is also valid for the development of research opportunities. But unlike the Olympic athletes who struggle to beat world records by fractions of hundredths, the development of accelerator experiments is progressing in such extreme steps that researchers have to clear completely new hurdles – their […]
Group picture taken at KEK. On 18 and 19 August, a total of 38 leading Japanese creators, including science-fiction and fantasy writers, animation movie directors, comic artists, illustrators, and photographers, visited J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Complex) in Tokai-village and KEK Tsukuba campus. This visit was coordinated by Junpei Fujimoto, a KEK scientist who is active […]