On 22 May, a small room at Kyushu University’s Hakozaki campus was crowded with journalists and local officials of the Kyushu area. A press briefing was held one day before the starting day of lively discussions on one of the detector concepts for the International Linear Collider, the ILD workshop. “I appreciate the media’s interests […]
ILC physics and detector programme sees progress in Kyushu
If the particles won’t come to the detector…
Experts on detector, machine-detector interface and civil engineering agree on detector hall design
Sometimes big things have to move in the way of small things to find exciting things. The ILC detectors, for example. True to the scientific principle of reproducibility of results, two detectors, ILD and SiD, will one day record what happens when electrons and positrons collide so that one can verify (or not) what the […]
From CERN Bulletin: Much ado about Nothing – exploring the vacuum with the LHC
From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: Authors and supporters
Lucie Linssen and Steinar Stapnes from CLIC examine the question of authoring long-term development projects for particle physics.
While people often grasp only a fraction of the physics at stake, they easily recognise the full extent of the human undertaking. Particle-physics experiments and accelerators are, indeed, miracles of technology and major examples of worldwide co-operation and on-site teamwork.
More knobs, more knowledge
Long-bunch-train ILC studies are back at FLASH
Accelerator theory and operating experience are all well and good. But if you’re planning and researching the next-generation particle accelerator, you sometimes need to crank things to their limits in order to get a step further. The 9-mA team has descended again on DESY’s FLASH accelerator in March to share control room space with the DESY […]
The incredible shrinking pixel sensor
Inside your pocket-sized mobile device, there likely sits a Lego-brick-sized camera inside of which lies a thumbnail-sized sensor. The sensor, sliver though it is, is on its way to being smaller. ILC researchers have been developing more compact pixel sensors, similar to those in cell-phone cameras, for detecting particle showers. The sensor’s diminished size is […]
From Fermilab Today: ILCSC and ICFA meetings
Meetings for the International Linear Collider Steering Committee and the International Committee for Future Accelerators recently took place in Oxford, England. One of the principal issues discussed at both meetings was a new organization for the worldwide linear collider effort.
International forum reviews linear collider physics case
2012 will be a decisive year for particle physics and the linear collider projects. What will be the outcome of the update of the European strategy for particle physics? In light of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 2012 results, will the linear collider physics case stay strong? The international community of theorists and experimentalists working […]
1-TeV beam shapes up
The popular understanding of a particle beam as a threadlike one-dimensional strand of energy isn’t wrong, but from the point of view of accelerator scientists, it’s a bit simplistic. Particle beams are nearly always carefully formed structures, especially in the space surrounding the point of their collision. Pinched here, stretched there, particle beams are crafted […]