The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is running extremely well and its two general-purpose detectors ATLAS and CMS are collecting data at a much faster pace than expected. The LHC successfully concluded its 2011 proton run an the end of last month. The ILC physics community is preparing for the results expected to emerge from […]
Is the Higgs enough?
from CERN Bulletin: Detectors on the drawing board
Onward and upward into the terascale
The 1-TeV upgrade challenges scientists develop better beams at lower rates of power
The technical design of the International Linear Collider is nearing completion, and it comes with a stipulation: If the Large Hadron Collider should direct scientists to an energy range beyond what the ILC accommodates, they should refer to its 1-teraelectronvolt contingency plan. Over the next several months, researchers will complete a preliminary study of the […]
CERN balances linear collider studies
At CERN, gradually formed cooperation between CLIC and the ILC is the way to go
The forces behind the two most mature proposals for a next-generation collider, the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study, have been steadily coming together, with scientists from both communities sharing ideas and information across the technology divide. In at least nominal support of cooperation between the two, CERN in Switzerland, […]
Going with the particle flow
The particle flow algorithm joins smart programming with the high granularity of next-generation particle detectors to measure energies with unprecedented resolution
The familiar image of a collision event in a particle detector is a beautiful mess: Gossamer lines shoot and spiral every which way from a common point, revealing the paths of the post-collision projectiles. Unfortunately for particle tagging, the tracks almost always end in knotty energy clusters, leading physicists down trails that stop abruptly, unresolved, […]
The pursuit of polarised positrons
The sixth POSIPOL workshop held at IHEP, Beijing
The POSIPOL 2011 workshop was held from 28 to 30 August at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. It was the sixth in the POSIPOL series of workshops coupling the polarised positron source R&D efforts of next-generation electron-positron colliders such as the ILC and the Compact Linear Collider […]
ILC positron collaboration meeting held in Beijing
On 27 August, one day prior to the POSIPOL 2011 workshop in Beijing – an annual workshop dedicated to polarised positron source R&D for ILC and CLIC – ILC polarised positron source experts gathered to attend an ILC positron collaboration meeting held at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to discuss […]
from CERN: LHC experiments present latest results at Mumbai conference
Welcome back, PCMAG!
PCMAG arrives for a fundamental overhaul at KEK
The superconducting magnet PCMAG came back to KEK on 10 August after four years of use in an experiment at the DESY test beam facility. PCMAG, which stands for persistent-current superconducting magnet, was originally developed as one of the prototype magnets for the BESS (the balloon-borne experiment with a superconducting spectrometer) experiment, a joint US-Japan […]