The InGrid chip is an ingenious little thing. It is essentially a Timepix chip equipped with 256×256 pixels. On top of these sits a grid that features a hole over each pixel. Within the 50-µm gap, a strong electric field is generated. This means that electrons flying through one of those holes feel this field and are […]
From Fermilab Today: Superconducting test accelerator achieves first electron beam
Tokyo event during ALCW: Taste of Discovery
22 April 2015, the middle day of the Asian Linear Collider Workshop (ALCW), will be a special day. Jointly hosted by Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and the Japanese industry-academia collaboration Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology (AAA), two events will be held on the same day: the ILC Tokyo Symposium and the Special Food Festa, […]
CLICing into action
CLIC is one of the potential follow-up projects to the LHC, alongside the International Linear Collider and the Future Circular Collider studies. Instead of smashing protons into protons, it would collide electrons with their antiparticles, the positrons. And instead of bending the particles around a ring, CLIC would be a 50-kilomtre-long straight line using a […]
2020 on the horizon
AIDA-2020 proposal selected – 10 million euros of funding for detector R&D
Good 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 […]
Back to the future
Technology transfer between FCC and ILC
This tool offers a (very large) set of parameters and geological data such as soil composition, hydrography, environmental and sociological constraints and programmable risk factors data. You play with them – key in a tilt of, say, one percent or move points north or south or put the whole thing deeper underground – and the […]
Japanese industry getting ready for the ILC
On 3 December, about 200 Japanese businesspeople and scientists gathered in Tokyo to attend the general meeting of the Advanced Accelerator Association Promoting Science and Technology (AAA). This was the last general meeting for the AAA and also the first meeting for the newly incorporated AAA. AAA, Japan’s industry and academia collaboration, was established in […]
Vertical wonder
In 2006, Fermilab’s Particle Physics Division teamed up with MIT’s Lincoln Labs to start work on the first iteration of a new kind chip for the proposed International Linear Collider’s vertex detector. A new way to slim down chips was emerging in the semiconductor industry, one that could potentially make it easier to measure the […]
From Fermilab Today: New technique for generating RF power may dramatically cut linac costs
If you own a magnetron, you probably use it to cook frozen burritos. The device powers microwave ovens by converting electricity into electromagnetic radiation. But Fermilab engineers believe they’ve found an even better use. They’ve developed a new technique to use a magnetron to power a superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavity, potentially saving hundreds of millions […]
Green ILC: towards sustainable colliders
When planning a new research lab, an important step is to see how others have done similar things in the past and learn from their experiences. The ILC, with its many contributors from research labs all over the world, has this step firmly embedded in its planning procedure. But planning a new research lab also […]