One of Fermilab’s most distinct buildings now has a new resident. Last month, members of the CALICE collaboration moved their calorimeters into the newly renovated Meson Test Beam Facility. They will test the calorimeters with low- and high-energy particle beams during the next two years. “Fermilab is very pleased to host the collaboration,” said Fermilab […]
SiD Workshop at Cosener’s House
The SiD detector concept community met last week at the STFC’s Cosener’s House in Abingdon, UK. This was the first meeting after SiD submitted its Expression of Interest (EoI) and also the first SiD Workshop outside of the Americas. Hosted jointly by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Oxford University, the workshop attracted around 65 participants, […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab reaches milestone with successful cavity test
A successful test of a dressed 3.9 GHz superconducting radiofrequency cavity last week put Fermilab among an elite group that can produce cutting-edge, high-powered accelerator components. Fermilab employees need to test three more cavities before they can assemble a cryomodule for shipment to DESY for use in the laboratory’s free-electron laser accelerator. The collaboration with […]
It’s ladies’ night
Today’s issue features a story from Junpei Fujimoto, a particle simulation specialist at KEK, who is very active in ILC outreach in Japan. In Japan, several attempts are being made to bring accelerator science, such as the open house at KEK, a summer school for high school students, lectures in high schools and middle schools, […]
The Open Day at CERN – My first encounter with particle physics
Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as
Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as “a demanding yet rewarding experience”. Katrin Voss’s first […]
From SLAC Today: symmetry Magazine launches new online format
The latest issue of symmetry launches the next phase of the magazine’s development. Our readers now use the magazine in different ways, and we are reaching a much larger audience. While readers are outspoken in wanting to keep the print magazine, many of them are now more comfortable reading online. Starting from this issue, we will […]
Sad news for the ILC community
Vincent Lepeltier, our good colleague and friend, suddenly passed away last week, a few days after the Sendai meeting, leaving us full of pain and sadness. We will miss very deeply both his professional and human qualities. Vincent Lepeltier at the last ILC meeting at Sendai. (Photo: Nobu Toge) For more than twenty years Vincent […]
SiD detector concept meeting at SLAC
The SiD detector concept collaboration met at SLAC from January 28 to 30. This meeting was planned last October at the ALCPG07 meeting at Fermilab, as part of the preparation for the Letter of Intent (LOI). Graphic from an engineering study of SiD on beamline. (credit: Marco Oriunno, SLAC) After the news about budget reductions, […]
From Fermilab Today: SCRF meeting establishes compatibility framework
Scientists from around the world work to develop components for future linear accelerators that use superconducting radiofrequency cavities. Research efforts should allow for a more efficient and cost-effective approach to furthering this technology. But only if those individual components, in particular the SCRF cavities, will work together. Last week’s SCRF meeting held at Fermilab focused […]
Together as one: ILD community meets in Zeuthen
A global project like the ILC depends on global cooperation. The contributors are scattered all over the world. Researchers cannot simply walk down the hall to get advice from a colleague because he is likely to sit somewhere half a world away. However, there is technology that helps scientists to cover these distances virtually: discussions […]