TESLA, which stands for TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, is the name of a former planned collider using an accelerating technology closely linked with the ILC. To some extent, TESLA can be said to be the predecessor of ILC technology. As time has gone by, TESLA technology has expanded its meaning to include superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) […]
Advancing superconducting accelerating technology
A report from the TESLA Technology Collaboration meeting and the ILC-GDE SCRF meeting held in China last month
Most-read in 2011
What ILC news got your attention in 2011? Activity surrounding the collider was as far-reaching as it was diverse. It was discussed as a boost to an economy hard-hit by natural disaster. It brought its scientists together to entertain the residents of a vibrant college town. And it may yet earn its place as a […]
From CERN: ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status
13 December 2011: In a seminar held at CERN today, the ATLAS and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson.
Light as a feather
The PLUME project sets a new milestone for vertex detectors
A group of European physicists, the PLUME collaboration, aims to prototype an ultra-light device intended to equip one of the thinnest and lightest elements at the inner heart of the ILC detectors: the vertex detector. At CERN one month ago, a full-scale prototype equipped with CMOS pixel sensors was successfully tested in beam. At the […]
LCIO 2.0 improves simulation coordination
Over the years, the linear collider input/output event data model has facilitated data sharing between the world’s linear collider detector groups
The data model that transformed the linear collider detector community from a computational Tower of Babel into a group that inputs with one voice has gotten an update. ILC software developers released LCIO 2.0 this autumn. The new version of LCIO, a particle event data model, includes features that help scientists cope with the increasingly […]
Successful slamming with music and the ILC
Germany celebrates “Weltmaschine” LHC
If you ever take part in a science slam and really, really want to come first, here’s a tip: play music on stage. It worked when Brian Foster played the violin to slam about hidden dimensions back in March and it worked when LHC physicist Klaus Desch from Bonn University in Germany used a piano […]
Setting the stages for shorter bunches
ILC’s central region gets reviewed
Beam lines, extraction lines, supply lines, final focus, sources, dumps, tunnels, shafts and not to forget the detector hall – the ILC’s central region is a busy place. In a recent technical review held at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, systems like the electron source, the positron source, the connection from damping ring to main linac, […]
From symmetry breaking: Favored Higgs hiding spot remains after most complete search yet
Jefferson Lab and IHEP renew accelerator cavity collaboration
Under the umbrella of the PRC-US Cooperation on High Energy Physics, Jefferson Lab and IHEP exchange notes on cavity R&D
At a recent meeting between US and Chinese high-energy and nuclear physics laboratories, Jefferson Lab in Newport News, US, and the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, renewed a partnership to collaborate on the development of superconducting accelerator cavities, including an ILC-type nine-cell cavity. It is a continuation of a collaboration that […]