As a global science project, the ILC draws on the resources of laboratories in the Americas, Asia and Europe. It also calls on capabilities from industrial factories and plants around the globe. The ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) has worked to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas among these diverse collaborators and industrial […]
The fruits of industry
The Global Design Effort collaborates with industrial companies to encourage scientific innovation for ILC technology
Good gradients in seconds flat
Fermilab scientists turn their attention to individual cavities to improve beam stability
A constant acceleration gradient along many thousands of particle bunches provides for a particle beam’s sure-footed climb to higher energies, readying the beam for collision by providing the same acceleration for each bunch. But constant gradients don’t come naturally for accelerating cavities, the elements that pave the particles’ ascending path. A cavity has to be […]
From symmetry breaking: Higgs buzz at summer physics conference
How to keep cavities blemish-free
Worrying about blemishes on the skin is not just an issue for people who pursue personal physical beauty, but also for accelerator scientists. Scientists and engineers at KEK have found a way to deal with unwanted stains on the inner surface of superconducting cavities, which might be one of the causes of performance limitation. Since […]
From symmetry magazine: Adventures of a light-source bum
ILD collaborators make progress on detector design options
The creation of a detector blueprint draws on diverse resources: physics cases, engineering choices, computational capacity and human drive. The Detailed Baseline Design Report (DBD) is slowly but steadily appearing on the horizon, and it will reflect the weaving together of these elements to present the best realistic manifestation of ILD. After the Letters of […]
All aboard the long bunch train
Collaborators for the ILC and for DESY’s FLASH facility learn from long bunch train studies at a recent workshop
For all the complicated engineering and hulking structures involved in operating particle accelerators, it’s the tiny, invisible particle beam at the centre of everything that is the machine’s reason for being. A probe for burrowing into subatomic places or a light to shine on molecular forms, the beam is science’s exploratory tool for the universe’s […]
Concrete plans for a platform
Pushing and pulling a detector on its platform brings technical challenges
Setting the stage for a particle collision event requires orchestration of Wagnerian proportions. Part of the production for the International Linear Collider involves perfectly positioning giant, unwieldy detectors in the particle beamline to capture data from electron-positron collisions. Recently ILC collaborators agreed that steel-reinforced concrete platforms would be used to steadily and nimbly move the […]
First linear collider power distribution and pulsing workshop
Lowering power consumption is not only an earth-friendly undertaking. It is also a key issue for particle physicists to solve to design the next generation of collider experiments. Detectors will measure signals recorded in millions of readout channels. At the same time, the pulsed-bunch structure of the future lepton collider beams suggests that detectors should […]