Vietnam and Japan have been nurturing cooperative relationship in many fields for many years. For the field of science and technology, both governments signed the Japan-Vietnam Science and Technology Co-operation Agreement to promote and deepen the co-operation in science and technology in 2006. Following year, Shinzo Abe, then Prime minister of Japan, proposed at the […]
From Fermilab Today: Fine-tuning the instruments of acceleration
Achieving resonance in a scientific collaboration is no small feat, but scientists at Fermilab, DESY and KEK have come together to do exactly that: They’ve improved the mechanism that keeps superconducting radio frequency cavities in tune. Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division and DESY staff, with financial assistance from KEK, recently built four new tuning machines […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab-designed beam position monitors go to KEK
Members of the beam position monitoring collaboration for KEK’s Accelerator Test Facility. First row from left: Brian Fellenz, Andrea Saewert, Manfred Wendt and Eliana Gianfelice. Second row from left: Duane Voy, Dehong Zhang, Charlie Briegel, John Van Bogaert, Alexey Semenov and Nathan Eddy. Not pictured: Peter Prieto. Last May, in only two weeks’ time, a […]
From Fermilab Today: Recovery Act funds keep Fermilab wired
Electrician Stan Kramer works at New Muon Laboratory. Electrician Stan Kramer spent the better part of a recession-hit 2009 unemployed. Then, last March, he received the call from Arlington Electric that he was needed for a newly created job at Fermilab. Fermilab hired Arlington to do electrical work at the New Muon Laboratory with funds […]
Important progress on IHEP superconducting cavity
A 1.3-Gigahertz low-loss type large-grain nine-cell superconducting cavity called IHEP-01 produced at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, achieved an accelerating gradient of 20 Megavolts per metre in its first vertical test at KEK on 1 July. This may not be the design gradient yet, but it marks an important progress […]
The German way to the forum
Many different institutes and labs in Germany are involved in the development of a time projection chamber (TPC) for the ILD detector. Some ideas are so good that you have to export them when you move from one country to the other. This is especially the case in a global project like the ILC, where […]
From interactions.org: World’s particle physics labs take amateur photographers behind the scenes
8 July 2010 – Picture this: For the first time, amateur photographers around the world collide with the past, present and future of particle physics. Five of the world’s leading particle physics laboratories will make the image a reality when they join together to host a Particle Physics Photowalk on 7 August. More than 200 […]
From Symmetry Breaking: Rewriting textbooks and remeasuring the particle data booklet at the LHC
Textbooks were being rewritten during last week’s Physics at LHC conference. “I was sitting in the session, listening to the ALICE talk by Andrea Dainese from Padova on Wednesday morning, and suddenly I knew: I could replace all the textbook bubble-chamber pictures from the sixties in my lectures,” said DESY’s Thomas Naumann, a member of the […]