Machine experts try to run DESY's free-electron laser under ILC-like conditions
More than 1034 times per second per square centimetre — that’s how often electrons and positrons are supposed to collide in the ILC. The project’s accelerator experts have no doubts that it can be done, but they have to demonstrate it, too. An important proof is to run ILC-like beam conditions through a radiofrequency (RF) […]
Today's issue features a guest story by Marcel Stanitzki, experimentalist working at Rutherford Appleton Lab in the UK and member of the SiD collaboration.
A computer model of what a future SiD detector would look like. Graphic: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) A 3-D model of the detector was present during all the talks. (Photo: Jim Brau) The push-pull configuration worked out for SiD. Graphics: Marco Oriunno (SLAC) The third SiD Workshop this year, hosted from 17 to […]
Today's issue features a guest essay by James Wells, a theorist working at CERN who specialises in physics beyond the Standard Model.
Much of the history of particle physics has been devoted almost exclusively to finding out what our bodies are made of. We first learned about protons and electrons and neutrons because they constitute the matter that makes up our bodies, and we learned of photons (light) because it interacts with our bodies when we see. […]
Discussions during the ILD meeting in Cambridge, UK, about the detector concept parameters continued in the coffee breaks… …and after hours. (Photos: DESY) “I know it is painful — nobody expected it to be fun,” Ties Behnke, standing in front of a detector audience in a lecture hall at Cambridge University, summed up the at […]
European ILC-HiGrade project officially launched
There are many official stages to a project financed by the European Commission – from call, proposal, negotiations, contract draft, start of work, annual reports to one of the most official events: the kick-off meeting. Europe’s new flagship project on cavity production and exploration of international governance structures, ILC-HiGrade took this step last week. Representatives form […]
Progress at Fermilab's ILCTA
Good news from an experimental hall at the edge of the prairie: Fermilab’s ILC test area in the ‘New Muon Lab‘ (NML) has just taken a major step towards completion with the installation of the first cryomodule on 6 August. The first cryomodule on its way into the NML hall at Fermilab… …on the hook… […]
Attendees at the LCFOA Capitol Hill industrialisation briefing listening to Marc Ross describing the ILC TD phase plan The Linear Collider Forum of America (LCFOA) held an ILC industrialisation meeting and briefing for Congressional staffers on Capitol Hill on 29 July. The briefing was attended by 46 persons from universities, industry, and laboratories and Congressional […]
A day before Japanese cabinet reshuffling, Diet members and other senior government officials took time out from their busy schedule to attend the inaugural meeting of newly formed “Federation of Diet members to promote the realisation of ILC” with a group with representatives from all political parties in Japan: Liberal Democratic party (LDP), Democratic party […]
In their meeting a couple of days ago at DESY, ECFA, the European Committee for Future Accelerators, got a complete update on all present and future particle physics activities in Europe. They also discussed the ILC and its potential: “We think it is important to remember that particle physics in Europe is more than the LHC,” says […]
Unusually for the holiday season, the car parks are full, finding a table at lunch is a formidable challenge, and people can (more than ever) be found in their offices late into the night. All the evidence points to one thing… the most ambitious particle collider in the world is just a few weeks away […]