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The Open Day at CERN – My first encounter with particle physics

Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as

| 17 April 2008

Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as “a demanding yet rewarding experience”. Katrin Voss’s first […]

Collaboration between India and Japan for SCRF technology

| 10 April 2008

India’s Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) is a leading institute for research and development in lasers, accelerators and their applications. In the Indian government’s current five-year plan (April 2007-April 2012), building infrastructure and developing the technology of niobium superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavities are the two major objectives for high-energy physics and accelerator-related projects. […]

Accelerator Advisory Panel to help Project Managers

| 3 April 2008

The TILC08 meeting in Sendai saw the first gathering of the new Accelerator Advisory Panel (AAP). Other than the yet to be established Project Advisory Committee, which will be formed following a request from the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) and will consist mainly of machine and detector experts from outside the ILC community, […]

Michel Davier chairs the International Detector Advisory Group

| 13 March 2008

Michel Davier, senior French physicist at LAL and Professor at University Paris-Sud 11, will chair the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) of the ILC project. “It is an honour for me to serve the ILC project, especially in this particularly interesting stage when the experimental landscape is being established,” says Davier. He has worked on […]

ICFA Statement on Funding for the Linear Collider

| 6 March 2008

The ICFA chair greeted TILC08 participants via recorded video message. What do you do when you are director of a lab and chairman of a large international committee and have been invited to different events on different continents on the same day, assuming you don’t have clones? You try to attend both — at least […]

From Fermilab Today: SCRF meeting establishes compatibility framework

| 1 March 2008

Scientists from around the world work to develop components for future linear accelerators that use superconducting radiofrequency cavities. Research efforts should allow for a more efficient and cost-effective approach to furthering this technology. But only if those individual components, in particular the SCRF cavities, will work together. Last week’s SCRF meeting held at Fermilab focused […]

ILC meets the CLIC team

| 28 February 2008

After the Large Hadron Collider, the science community agrees that particle physicists will need an electron-positron linear collider to fully understand and discover the potential new science at high energy regimes. Apart from the International Linear Collider – whose ‘cold’ accelerating technology is based on superconducting radiofrequency cavities – another variant of an electron collider, […]

Looking inside

| 21 February 2008

At the ILC, roughly 16,000 superconducting RF cavities made of pure niobium will accelerate electrons and positrons to the high energy of 500 GeV. Each one-metre-long cavity consists of nine cells, polished to provide micrometre-level surface smoothness and absolutely no impurities. The inside of the cavities need to literally sparkle since any surface blemishes or […]

Accelerating past the finishing line

| 14 February 2008

It was supposed be the wrap-up meeting of a successful accelerator physics project. However, when the news came that the EU-funded EUROTeV was going to be extended, the meeting in Frascati, Italy, from 23 to 25 January turned into both a summary and a future-planning session. “We’ve got another year to go and the project […]

Together as one: ILD community meets in Zeuthen

| 7 February 2008

A global project like the ILC depends on global cooperation. The contributors are scattered all over the world. Researchers cannot simply walk down the hall to get advice from a colleague because he is likely to sit somewhere half a world away. However, there is technology that helps scientists to cover these distances virtually: discussions […]