Leah Hesla | 8 December 2011
A new version of linear collider data storage software was released this past autumn to accommodate detector scientists' increasing sophistication in simulating particle events. LCIO (the name comes from 'linear collider input/output') continues to facilitate agreement among the world's linear collider groups with a common event data model and file format for data exchange.
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detector R&D, LCIO, particle simulation, software
Leah Hesla | 17 November 2011
Jefferson Lab in the US and the Institute for High Energy Physics in China sign a formal agreement that will further accelerator cavity research.
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1.3 GHz, cavity testing, IHEP, IHEP-01, international collaboration, JLab, nine-cell cavity
Leah Hesla | 3 November 2011
A company in Lansing, US is developing accelerator cavities for the ILC. In the course of improving these high-tech devices, it has enhanced its expertise in developing them for other areas of science and, as an added benefit, sustaining the technology R&D.
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accelerator R&D, industrialisation, industry, SRF industrialisation, superconducting cavity
Leah Hesla | 20 October 2011
Until the Large Hadron Collider tells scientists where in the energy frontier to dig for new physics, ILC researchers are preparing for eventualities. Should new physics be found to reside in a range higher than the ILC’s current reach, scientists have a energy-boosting plan in their back pocket.
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1 TeV, energy upgrade, TDR
Leah Hesla | 13 October 2011
Steinar Stapnes has assumed the title of CERN’s Linear Collider Study Leader, a newly configured position that acknowledges a call for cooperation between the ILC and the laboratory’s well established Compact Linear Collider study. His new post requires him to perform a balancing act that involves two collider concepts, roughly a hundred researchers and a finite number of Swiss francs.
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CERN, ILC-CLIC
Leah Hesla | 15 September 2011
Resolved that pictures of particle jets don’t have to be fuzzy or gnarled, scientists developed the particle flow algorithm, a paradigm for effectively teasing out each particle’s energy from another’s. To make it work, researchers expanded the tracking capabilities of the detector model, enabling it to measure energies with higher precision.
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CALICE, calorimetry R&D, detector R&D, particle flow algorithm
Leah Hesla | 1 September 2011
Accelerator cavities have their faults, and some pits and cracks hide deep in the walls or in out-of-the-way places where they aren’t easily found. Accelerator researchers help improve flawed cavities by taking their fault-finding missions beneath the cavity surface with X-ray computed tomography.
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cavity, cavity diagnostic, Fermilab
Leah Hesla | 18 August 2011
Being holed up at Fermilab's Test Beam Facility for two weeks, 18 hours a day is no reason to go hungry. Researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington subsisted on instant noodles while they kept busy with their gas electron multipliers, one of the technologies being developed for the ILC detector.
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detector R&D, DHCAL, Gas Electron Multiplier, University of Texas at Arlington
Leah Hesla | 11 August 2011
The R&D of industry is as vital to the ILC project as research performed in the laboratory. The Global Design Effort has formed close relationships with multiple industry vendors, fostering innovation and reducing costs.
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GDE, GDE Project Managers, industry
Leah Hesla | 4 August 2011
A stable particle beam needs a trouble-free path on its way to high energies, and that means providing it with a smooth gradient to ascend. A team of scientists at Fermilab has arrived at a way to control accelerating cavities so they can give particle beams exactly that – a tilt-free path to collision.
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9 mA experiment, cavity gradient, cavity testing, DESY, Fermilab, FLASH
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