Rolf Heuer giving a personal view of the future at last ILC-ECFA Workshop in Warsaw. Photo:Nobu Toge Do you think that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) start-up can help promote particle physics and particle collider projects in general? I think we should benefit from the LHC start-up to communicate the excitement and the importance of […]
Rolf Heuer’s vision of particle physics in Europe
Interview with Rolf Heuer, future Director-General of CERN and currently Research Director at DESY.
From interactions.org: Five million Euros to prepare Europe for the International Linear Collider
The partners of the ‘ILC-HiGrade’ proposal for the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme have just started a contract for five million Euros funding over the next four years with the European Commission. ‘ILC-HiGrade’ stands for ‘International Linear Collider and High Gradient Superconducting RF-Cavities.’ One of the main objectives of the proposal is a small serial […]
Second sound sounds promising
Cornell proposes new cavity temperature mapping technique
Is it a microphone? Is it a thermometer? It’s an oscillating superleak transducer! Cornell’s re-entrant nine-cell cavity was tested with the second-sound method. The yellow dot shows where a quench occurred. “Our superconducting technology group here at Cornell is doing some very fundamental R&D,” says Hasan Padamsee, physics professor at Cornell university and expert in […]
New forum for promotion of advanced accelerator technology and scienceForum meets in Tokyo
On June 11, the executive officers of leading Japanese companies, important dignitaries, and a physics Nobel Prize winner gathered at Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan to celebrate the establishment of a forum for promotion of advanced accelerator technology and science (official English name yet to be determined). The forum aims to develop the structure which will be […]
ATF shuts down for summer
On the last day of May, ILC scientists and engineers enjoyed a barbecue, sushi and Ton-jiru miso soup with pork and vegetables in front of the ATF (Accelerator Test Facility at KEK) container. This gathering, called the ATF end-of-run party, has been a routine event for over ten years. “We have this kind of party […]
Hail Cesr
Part one of a series on how a storage ring at Cornell University morphs into a damping ring test accelerator
Sometimes even pretty straightforward and remarkably logical ideas take several moves before they become a reality. Take the planned damping rings for the ILC, for example. In the ILC, compact bunches of electrons and positrons are made to collide at very high energy. In order to ensure a high rate of particle collisions, the bunches […]
On the costing trail
Project Management office plans the future of the cost estimate
Hamburg isn’t exactly known for its good weather and hours of sunshine per year. So when the sun is out and nature is exploding with spring leaves and early summer blossoms, Hamburgers go to every length to spend those precious times outside. Spending a day in a conference room darkened for better presentations, hunched over […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab welcomes CALICE to Test Beam facility
One of Fermilab’s most distinct buildings now has a new resident. Last month, members of the CALICE collaboration moved their calorimeters into the newly renovated Meson Test Beam Facility. They will test the calorimeters with low- and high-energy particle beams during the next two years. “Fermilab is very pleased to host the collaboration,” said Fermilab […]
SiD Workshop at Cosener’s House
The SiD detector concept community met last week at the STFC’s Cosener’s House in Abingdon, UK. This was the first meeting after SiD submitted its Expression of Interest (EoI) and also the first SiD Workshop outside of the Americas. Hosted jointly by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Oxford University, the workshop attracted around 65 participants, […]