At the opening session of the ILC Test Beam Workshop on Wednesday, participants learned how the upgraded Meson Test Beam Facility will keep pace with the high-precision measurements required by the proposed ILC. The upgraded facility is set to be commissioned next week. So far, most of the specifications for ILC detectors have not been […]
Unprecedented: 13.1 nm for FLASH!
Shortest wavelength generated with DESY's pilot facility for the future European XFEL
Shortest wavelength generated with DESY’s pilot facility for the future European XFEL When Albrecht Wagner, Chairman of the DESY Directorate, opened his mailbox in the morning of 27 April and found an email about FLASH’s 13.1-nm success, he replied immediately: “This is exciting and fantastic news! Congratulations to the entire team!” FLASH, DESY’s pilot facility […]
Caring for Asian Accelerators
Shin-ichi Kurokawa Shin-ichi Kurokawa works actively as Chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), which together with ICFA has created and is overseeing activities of the Global Design Effort. But he also has another face: For more than ten years now, he has been building a closer relationship between accelerators within Asia. His […]
Linear Collider Forum of America Hosts Next ILC Industrialization Meeting at SLAC
At the first LCFOA meeting, attendees received a tour of the ILC test area at Fermilab. The Linear Collider Forum of America, a not-for-profit industrial forum, will hold its spring 2006 meeting at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, CA on 1-2 May. Speakers will include Barry Barish, Director ILC Global Design […]
University of Michigan Experiments with Silicon Microstrip Detectors
Haijun Yang of the University of Michigan adjusts the alignment of the frequency scanned interferometer system. Because high precision measurements will be the hallmark of experiments at the International Linear Collider, the project will require a detector with highly technical components to accurately measure the properties of the emerging particles. From beam position monitors to […]
Help Your GDE Communicators
Attend the ILC Communications Meeting at KEK
On the week after the International Accelerator School for Linear Collider, InterAction communicators and ILC outreach committee members from all three regions will meet at KEK on 29-31 May to discuss the issues of ILC commmunications. Anyone who is interested in ILC communications is encouraged to attend. Provisioned members are InterAction, ILC communicators, regional ILC […]
Dark Matter Determines the Universe
You may see thousands of stars or countless numbers of galaxies in the night sky. The universe is so vast that it would seem like just an infinite number of galaxies are out there. But in fact, what a human observes in the universe as visible light or any other form of radiation is just […]
Hosting the LCWS06
Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science, who hosted the combined workshop of LCWS06 and the third Global Design Effort meeting, sees the value of combining the phenomenologists, theorists, experimentalists, accelerator physicists, and people from industry to come together in one place. “I’ve been involved in linear collider physics since 1990,” Godbole says. “Some […]
Friendly Advice — KEK Publishes Interim Report on International Linear Collider
When you need to make a decision, it is useful to have advice from influential people whom you trust. As the Director General of KEK, this was what Yoji Totsuka did to lead the future of high energy physics in Japan when ICFA announced the technology choice for the ILC. He set up a private […]
Detector Options for the ILC
If built, the International Linear Collider will hurl tiny electrons and positrons down 26 miles of accelerator, colliding the particles at the center in a microscopic explosion. But what good is it all if you can’t see it happen? Because of the subtle nature of the ILC’s proposed work, its detectors will need to collect […]