Barry Barish | 22 June 2006Magnets that steer beams around a ring-shaped accelerator, that focus particle beams and that make various optical corrections are key to building such high-energy particle accelerators.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: magnet, magnet system, main linac
Barry Barish | 15 June 2006This famous palindrome was purportedly spoken by Napoleon when referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him in 1814.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: KEK
Mitsuaki Nozaki | 8 June 2006High energy physics is a field of international collaborative efforts, both historically and today. Many non-Asian scientists from around the world are currently participating in the KEKB and neutrino experiments at KEK.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Asia, KEK, particle physics
Barry Barish | 1 June 2006Last week I attended the meeting of the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider -- FALC -- at the INFN Headquarters in a historic building nestled in the small twisty streets near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in the heart of beautiful old Rome.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: FALC, INFN, Italy, Rome
Barry Barish | 25 May 2006One of the most intriguing features of the ILC is its potential to act as a telescope to "explore energies a trillion times that of the accelerator itself, in the ultrahighenergy realm where physicists believe that all of natures forces become one."
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: Quantum Universe
Barry Barish | 18 May 2006Today we inaugurate a new look for the ILC website, as well as a new logo. We have strived to make our website as functional as possible, while also making it attractive.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC logo
Barry Barish | 11 May 2006One of the more difficult decisions we made last fall was which damping ring option to choose for our baseline. No recommendation came out of the Snowmass Workshop and our damping ring working group continued to study the question through much of the fall.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: baseline, damping ring, ILC baseline
