Attendees at the LCFOA Capitol Hill industrialisation briefing listening to Marc Ross describing the ILC TD phase plan The Linear Collider Forum of America (LCFOA) held an ILC industrialisation meeting and briefing for Congressional staffers on Capitol Hill on 29 July. The briefing was attended by 46 persons from universities, industry, and laboratories and Congressional […]
From CERN bulletin: Start-up fever
Unusually for the holiday season, the car parks are full, finding a table at lunch is a formidable challenge, and people can (more than ever) be found in their offices late into the night. All the evidence points to one thing… the most ambitious particle collider in the world is just a few weeks away […]
From KEK Director’s Corner: Obituary: Yoji Totsuka, Former Director General of KEK
From interactions.org: Five million Euros to prepare Europe for the International Linear Collider
The partners of the ‘ILC-HiGrade’ proposal for the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme have just started a contract for five million Euros funding over the next four years with the European Commission. ‘ILC-HiGrade’ stands for ‘International Linear Collider and High Gradient Superconducting RF-Cavities.’ One of the main objectives of the proposal is a small serial […]
Creating polarised positron beams
Today's issue features a story from Tohru Takahashi, a particle physicist and associate professor at Hiroshima University. He is the co-author of "Big-Bang wo tsukuridase" (Making the Big-Bang), a book about the ILC.
The PosiPol2008 workshop was held from 16 to 18 June in Hiroshima, Japan. An unfamiliar word, “PosiPol” stands for “polarised positrons”, meaning that the “spins” of positrons are aligned when they meet electrons at the centre of a linear collider. The electron beam is designed to be polarised at the ILC, but according to the […]
ILC physics subgroup meeting at KEK
Today's issue features a story from Keisuku Fujii, a particle physicist, who is a member of the ILC group in KEK.
On May 31 we had a meeting of our ILC physics subgroup, which is a mixture of experimentalists and theorists working in Japan. The meeting was the fifth in a series that started about a year ago, and each time 20 to 30 people got together to monitor and discuss the direction of the subgroup’s […]
From Fermilab Today: Citizens’ task force delivers recommendations
When Fermilab reached out to neighbors five years ago to engage community members in laboratory decision making, some people in science and some neighbors doubted it would work. But last week when the second of two task forces presented its recommendations, both sides said the partnership was invaluable and they would do it again. “It […]
CALICE collaboration is connected
Controlling beam tests all over the world
Even if you don’t want to step through new control room’s swish sliding doors, you can have a look inside DESY’s new feature because of its doors made of glass: it is a medium-sized room with some technical interior and an ILC colour scheme. There are two computer working stations, each with four monitors and […]
From Interactions.org: Particle physics receives boost from $5 million gift to University of Chicago
The University of Chicago announced today that it has received a $5 million gift to be directed toward the development of future programs in particle physics. “This is a marvelous gift,” said Robert Zimmer, President of the University. “A generous family has stepped forward and is making an investment in high-energy physics, to the direct […]
From Fermilab Today: Students report on the importance, design of proposed linear collider
Members of the latest group exploring the proposed International Linear Collider lack physics degrees. In fact, they don’t yet have high school diplomas. To teach 35 eighth-graders about particle physics, Batavia Rotolo Middle School teachers Macy Felter and Elizabeth Selander had them study the ILC, the proposed next-generation particle accelerator. “We’ve never tried anything like […]