Barbara Warmbein | 5 February 2015The first prototype module of CLIC is operational in the CLIC test facility. The Compact Linear Collider Study shows that it does what it says in the acronym: a compact accelerator module, fed by high-power waveguides, cables and cooling tubes, sits elegantly on a custom-made mechanical structure that can be moved in all directions to ultra-high precision, and tests how all the little details work that turn a metal structure into a functioning accelerator module– frequency, losses, damping, acceleration, deceleration. At the CLIC test facility you see none of the heavy-duty steel pipes that characterise the dipole magnets of the LHC.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: accelerator R&D, CLIC, drive beam
Barbara Warmbein | 22 January 2015Good news for detector developers in Europe: the AIDA-2020 proposal to the European Commission has been selected to be funded as part of the Horizon 2020 programme. This means that future projects needing state-of-the-art particle detectors like the Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the linear collider will receive a total of ten million euros funding over the next four years. Thirty-eight participants from all across Europe take part in AIDA2020, including CERN as coordinating institute, making it the largest European detector R&D project.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CERN, DESY, detector R&D, European Union, gaseous detectors, LHC upgrade, Linear Collider, microelectronics, software
Barbara Warmbein | 11 December 2014The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study, though even further in the future than the ILC, might be feeding technology back to its linear cousin. An interactive tunnel-planning tool developed by a civil engineering design company for planning the future circular colliders in the CERN vicinity could prove to be useful for detailed planning and design optimisation of the ILC in the designated Kitakami site.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: civil engineering, FCC, ILC, layout, site-specific design
Rika Takahashi | 11 December 2014Japanese businesspeople and scientists gathered in Tokyo last week to attend the general meeting of the Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology, which is now a general incorporated association. At this occasion, three special lectures were given Lyn Evans, Hitoshi Murayama and Sachio Komamiya from the Linear Collider Collaboration and Board. The Japanese science community will closely collaborate with the association in the future towards the realisation of the ILC.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: AAA, Japan, MEXT
Joykrit Mitra | 26 November 2014US scientists, with assistance from private industry have designed the newest iteration of a special chip with a 3D integrated circuit, for the ILC's vertex detector that will help measure properties of incoming particles at a higher resolution than previously achievable. The ILC is now another step closer to being an engineering reality.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: detector R&D, Fermilab, ILC, United States, vertex detector
Troy Rummler | 13 November 2014A team at Fermilab has developed a new technique to use a magnetron to power a superconducting radio-frequency accelerating cavity, potentially saving hundreds of millions of dollars in the construction and operating costs of future linear accelerators.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: Fermilab, power source, SCRF
Barbara Warmbein | 30 October 2014Smashing particles together at high energies is power-consuming business. People around the world are discussing to see if the ILC could be made green in the hope to finally reach complete sustainability. More efficient klystrons and cryocoolers, recovering and recycling heat wastes, embedding renewable energies and storage technologies are some of the main issues. The ILC could bring back high-energy physics to one of its core businesses: energy.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: ESS, green ILC, power consumption, sustainability, Tohoku
Barbara Warmbein | 16 October 2014Test beam season has started again. Two potential prototypes for future ILC detectors are being tested in a beamline at CERN that delivers hadrons from the proton synchrotron, CERN’s workhorse accelerator. The CALICE collaboration is looking forward to getting its hands on the fresh test beam data.
Category: Around the World | Tagged: CALICE, CERN, CLIC, detector R&D, ILD, test beam
Rika Takahashi | 2 October 2014The Linear Collider collaboration has launched the video message campaign #mylinearcollider to visualise the support for the ILC from scientists around the world. Tell us why you want the ILC!
Category: Around the World | Tagged: mylinearcollider
