The 2017 CERN-Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics will be held in San Juan del Rio, Mexico, from 8 to 21 March 2017. The deadline for applications is 18 November. The lectures will cover a broad range of HEP topics at a level suitable for students working for a PhD in experimental particle physics. Financial support may be available for Latin-American […]
From Kitakami Times: Talking about 2016’s LCWS with Prof. Shinya Narita of Iwate University
The Linear Collider Workshop is a yearly gathering of scientists from around the world in order to discuss future high energy linear electron-positron colliders like the International Linear Collider. This year it’s happening in Morioka City in northern Japan, a stone’s throw away from the proposed site for the ILC, the Kitakami mountains! We’ve got a […]
From symmetry: You keep using that physics word
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Physics can often seem inconceivable. It’s a field of strange concepts and special terms. Language often fails to capture what’s really going on within the math and theories. And to make things even more complicated, physics has repurposed a number of familiar English words. Much like Americans in England, folks from beyond the realm of […]
Particle scientists are cool!
Junior high school students Kotomi Sato and Momoyo Sugawara, members of the “ILC club,” visited CERN last August with three other students to learn more about life in a big international science laboratory. They were invited to give a short debriefing during a panel discussion at an ILC symposium held on 10 September in Oshu […]
Break
LC NewsLine is taking a summer break. The next issue will be published on 8 September.
Practi-Cal
Better together: two technological prototypes of the high-granularity calorimeters for a future ILC detector have been tested together with particle beams at CERN in a combined mode. The Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype with its 48 layers and the Silicon Electromagnetic CALorimeter (SiECAL) with its 10 units, both part of the CALICE collaboration, spent two […]
Higgs anniversary pizza
The anniversary of the announcement of the Higgs discovery (which happened on 4 July 2012) was hard to miss at CERN this year. People braced waiting times of more than 30 minutes to have a taste of discovery: the specially created Higgs pizza! Two shoots of asparagus (proton beams) collide in the middle of the […]
Impressions from Santander
You cannot miss that there was a big linear collider meeting last week: the Director’s Corner gives a summary of results and the Feature highlights a key decision taken during the workshop. Here are some visual impressions of the week, including from the Japanese-Spanish industrial forum on accelerator technologies and advanced detector instrumentation, the opening […]
National Lab Day
Fermilab, SLAC, JLab, Brookhaven, Argonne… these are all major players in particle physics and accelerator R&D. They are also the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) “national labs”. All national research labs came to Washington, D.C. on 20 April to show their work to members of Congress and other visitors. Pictured is Dick Durbin, Illinois senator, giving his address. DOE has […]
Advertising past and future sights
If you’ve ever taken the metro in Tokyo you know that it can be an adventure with earwormy jingles for every station and wonderfully colourful advertising in the cars. The cars of four lines of Tokyo Toei Subway currently display a very special ad featuring the ILC. It’s an ad placed by Iwate Prefecture to highlight the […]