Marc Besancon (CEA/Irfu), Maxim Titov (CEA/Irfu) and Marc Winter (CNRS/IN2P3, IPHC) | 9 January 2014The French Linear collider community organised its second “Linear Collider days” last November. The highlights of the meetings, summarised here by three of the organisers, show the diversity of the fields addressed the community and its expertise. The days ended with a special session dedicated to country reports where accelerator and detector activities in different continents were reviewed in the context of their possible future cooperation with France. It served as one of the building blocks in constructing European ILC Community.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: accelerator R&D, CEA, CNRS, detector R&D, France, IN2P3
19 December 2013CRISP, the "Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics" is a European-funded project and one of its objectives is to upgrade and harmonise the SRF Accelerator Structures for ESS, ILC, LHC upgrade and the European XFEL. The activity supports an optimised surface treatment, the application of advanced test and preparation infrastructure as well as state-of-the-art diagnostics tools. Significant focus is laid on the knowledge transfer between ESS, CERN and DESY. Read more in Accelerating News Winter 2013 issue
Category: Around the World | Tagged: Europe, European XFEL, FP7, LHC upgrade, superconducting cavity, Superconducting RF Test Facility
Gerrit Hörentrup (DESY) | 19 December 2013One-stop (work)shopping for high-gradient cavities: in a new lab at DESY in Hamburg all inspection and treatment processes for cavities come together under one roof to make treatment faster and more reliable and prepare for serial production.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: DESY, ILC R&D, superconducting cavity
Barbara Warmbein | 5 December 2013If physicists had it their way, detectors of the future would be powered with air. They want no material and no electronic noise to disturb their measurements. Powering by air isn’t a realistic option, so electrical engineers are tackling the challenge, putting a lot of effort into keeping noise down and material out. One of them is Cristian Fuentes at CERN. His latest project: power pulsing for the CLIC detector.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CERN, CLIC, detector R&D, power pulsing
Rika Takahashi | 24 October 2013Despite the largest typhoon in the year approaching, about 300 people braved the elements and gathered at a conference hall at University of Tokyo on 15 October. A symposium entitled “Can the ILC solve the mystery of the Universe?” was held, with representatives from the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and specialists from various fields.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: Japan, outreach
Julianne Wyrick | 26 September 2013In June, Fermilab researchers finished successfully processing and testing the second single-cell, ILC-type cavity that was electropolished with a new technique. The water-based process, which doesn’t require the use of strong acids as the standard technique does, was developed to be more environmentally and worker-friendly.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: cavity, cavity gradient, electropolishing, Fermilab
Julianne Wyrick | 12 September 2013The CesrTA collaboration at Cornell University, US, made important contributions to the design of the ILC damping rings for the recently completed Technical Design Report, including finding ways to reduce a phenomenon known as the electron cloud effect. Post-TDR, the collaboration is pursuing ways to make the damping rings even more effective by better understanding another phenomenon: intrabeam scattering.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CesrTA, Cornell University, damping ring, electron cloud, intrabeam scattering
