In mid February detector scientists from around the world met in two subsequent detector meetings held in Korea: the ILD (International Large Detector) Workshop at Ewha Campus Complex in Seoul from 16 to 18 February and the CALICE (Calorimeter for the Linear Collider Experiment) Collaboration Spring Meeting at Kyungpook National University in Daegu from 19 […]
From Fermilab: Collaboration between Fermilab, Indian institutions sets stage for future accelerators
INDORE, India (February 10, 2009) – The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., today announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with four Indian institutions. The MOU establishes collaboration in the areas of superconducting acceleration science and technology and in research and development of superconducting materials. “Ushering in the […]
From CERN: CERN management confirms new LHC restart schedule
Geneva, 9 February 2009. CERN1 management today confirmed the restart schedule for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) resulting from the recommendations from last week’s Chamonix workshop. The new schedule foresees first beams in the LHC at the end of September this year, with collisions following in late October. A short technical stop has also been […]
From Jefferson Lab News: ILC treatment of JLab cavity garners exciting result
For the last few years, Jefferson Lab staff members have used the lab’s unique facilities to test various accelerator components for a proposed next-generation collider, the International Linear Collider. Reminiscent of a stack of doughnuts, accelerator components called cavities energize particles for use in experiments that explore the smallest bits of matter. In preparing ILC […]
Korea to build new science and business city
Since the leadership of its President Lee Myung-bak, Korea has placed high value on science and technology. On 13 January, the government officially signed a contract for a big project to build an international science and business belt that includes the establishment of a new institute, the Asian Basic Science Institute (ABSI), and the construction of […]
From symmetry breaking: Project X collaboration forms, experiment moves forward
Project X, a Fermilab-hosted international accelerator facility, could break ground as soon as 2013. A potential location for Project X at Fermilab. Accelerator experts from around the world gathered at Fermilab last month to work toward establishing a formal collaboration and further plans for Fermilab’s proposed proton accelerator. At the meeting held Nov. 21-22, more […]
Harmonics of acceleration
The majority of NewsLine readers are scientists – most of you of the experimental kind. So be honest: how often during the last few weeks, when listening to carols, plucking the strings of your old guitar that you only get out during the holidays or cringing at a dissonant brass band, did you think about […]
From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: SRF technology comes full circle
Accelerator builders should step back and re-assess decades of R&D into superconducting RF technology says Jefferson Lab’s Ganapati Rao Myneni. Nearly a half-century ago, researchers at Stanford University began investigating superconducting RF (SRF) acceleration. They would not have been surprised to learn that by 1994, SRF had come into large-scale use in Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam […]
Understanding something new interview with Makoto Kobayashi
This interview was originally done for November issue of the “ILC Tsushin”, the Japanese newsletter for non-scientific readers. It has been hectic days for Makoto Kobayashi, Professor emeritus at KEK, since 7 October, the announcement of 2008 Nobel Prize in physics. Now that one month has passed, Kobayashi finally gets to settle down a little […]
Under pressure
Large time projection chamber prototype is about to start its first test
TPC collaborators from across the globe fit the endcap onto the TPC field cage. Pressure gauge working? Check! The time projection chamber is part of the tracker system of a future ILD detector at the ILC and will one day reproduce highly precise tracks of the particles that passed through its gas. A plot of […]