Leah Hesla | 31 January 2021
A summer undergraduate research experience hooked Amanda Steinhebel on particle physics in 2013, and she’s never looked back. A doctoral student at the University of Oregon, Steinhebel focuses on one of the detector designs for the International Linear Collider and Higgs boson decays at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. It’s all great fun, she says, but it’s even more fun when you share it.
Leah Hesla | 2 October 2014
The superconducting technology at the heart of the ILC is one of the outstanding innovations of the machine’s design. The new kid on the block, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s light source LCLS II, owes much to the ILC's advances in superconducting radio-frequency technology.
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Leah Hesla | 26 July 2012
Fermilab scientists have a new diagnostic tool that could lead to far more efficient accelerator cavities. The temperature mapping system, fitted with 576 sensors, reads the temperature of every square centimetre of cavity surface and might thus help scientists get to the bottom of the problem of why superconducting cavities dissipate much more energy than theory predicts.
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Leah Hesla | 19 April 2012
Out with the old, in with the new! Having completed a successful run of tests on Cryomodule 1, Fermilab researchers remove it from its current home and install Cryomodule 2. The new device’s components have shown promise, and with the experience from the earlier cryomodule brought to bear on the next, the team hopes to realise the ILC gradient goals at Fermilab before long.
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Leah Hesla | 29 March 2012
Researchers at Cornell University's Energy Recovery Linac programme recently achieved three milestones in two months. One of them could lead to more reliable superconducting accelerator cavities.
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beam current, beam emittance, cavity diagnostic, cavity processing, cavity testing, Cornell, energy recovery linac, ERL, SRF technology
Leah Hesla | 15 March 2012
The newest incarnation of the SLAC P2 Marx modulator is designed to be more versatile and robust than its predecessor. Having prepped it for reliability, scientists will soon put the modulator's mettle to the test.
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accelerator R&D, marx modulator, power pulsing, radiofrequency power, SLAC
Leah Hesla | 1 March 2012
We don’t usually notice all three dimensions of a semiconductor chip. We note the intricate, maze-like circuitry imprinted onto one side or its reflective sensor surface. Rarely is attention paid to its depth, mostly because chips have so little of it. In the last five to ten years, the particle detector community has been working with the semiconductor industry to develop sensors’ minuscule depths to create technology with integrated functionalities that could be used in fields outside particle physics.
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detector activities, detector R&D, monolithic active pixel sensors, pixel sensors
Leah Hesla | 9 February 2012
Designing a 1-TeV upgrade of the ILC requires a suitable particle beam to go along with it. Scientists recently decided on the shape of the 1-TeV beam, and it has a shifted waist.
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Leah Hesla | 12 January 2012
Canada-based PAVAC Industries recently set up a second shop in Fermilab’s backyard. Their work in superconducting cavities pushes their technological capabilities, enabling them to expand into other accelerator applications such as flue gas treatment for coal plants.
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Fermilab, industry, SRF industrialisation
Leah Hesla | 15 December 2011
Fermilab will soon begin operating CM2, a significant advancement in work on superconducting radiofrequency research that will serve the ILC community and Fermilab in building and operating future accelerators.
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ASTA, CM2, cryomodule, Fermilab, NML, SRF cryomodule
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