Beijing, China – The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) today announced the release of the Reference Design Report (RDR) for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed future particle accelerator. Hurling some 10 billion electrons and their anti-particles, positrons, toward each other at nearly the speed of light, beams in the ILC will collide […]
The ILC Vertex Detector: Tagging Transient Particles
Possible geometry for the ILC vertex detector. At the heart of the massive ILC detector system, the vertex detector, a compact tracking device about the size of a wine bottle, surrounds the interaction region. This high-tech piece of equipment hosts about a billion pixels in total – equivalent to hundreds of the finest cameras. It […]
From SLAC Today: ILC’s Marx Modulator
The current design for the International Linear Collider (ILC) requires 576, 10-megawatt klystron tubes to supply microwave power along its 40 km linear accelerator. Each ILC klystron tube needs 120,000 volt, 140-ampere pulses, fired at a rate of five pulses per second. Each pulse delivers a total energy of more than 23 kilojoules—the kinetic energy […]
From Fermilab Today: The final countdown: Meson Facility set for ILC Test Beam
At the opening session of the ILC Test Beam Workshop on Wednesday, participants learned how the upgraded Meson Test Beam Facility will keep pace with the high-precision measurements required by the proposed ILC. The upgraded facility is set to be commissioned next week. So far, most of the specifications for ILC detectors have not been […]
EuroTeV Looks Ahead to the ILC Engineering Design Phase
Almost three years after EuroTeV (The European Design Study Towards a Global TeV Linear Collider) convened for the very first time at Daresbury Laboratory in February 2004, the collaboration met once again this past week amidst the rolling green hills and gusting gales to acknowledge programme accomplishments and discuss plans for the future. EuroTeV is […]
First Japanese ILC Detector Workshop Held at KEK
From 20 to 22 December 2006, the first Japanese “ILC Detector” Workshop took place at KEK. It was supported by the JSPS grant for Creative Scientific Research “Research and development of a novel detector system for the international linear collider,” and about sixty participants – from undergraduate to senior researcher – from all over the […]
Experience the ILC Grid Virtual Organisation
This image displays all jobs currently submitted to the LCG/ EGEE Grid (LHC Computing Grid/Enabling grids for E-sciencE) via the resource brokers monitored, including ILC Jobs (screen shoot of 9 January 2007). Ever dreamt of saving computing time? "With the ILC Grid Virtual Organisation, I do in one day what I would do in about […]
Argonne-Fermilab BCP System Coming Together
To make the superconducting cavities for the ILC sparkle, they must undergo a series of surface treatments to make them as clean and pure as possible – a necessity for achieving high accelerating gradients. Electropolishing and Buffered Chemical Polishing, the two types of chemical treatments required for the cavities, are not simple tasks. They involve […]
Bridging Theory, Experiment, LHC and ILC
Philip Bechtle (30) graduated at DESY in 2004 and is currently working at the BaBar experiment at SLAC in California. A new team of young researchers based at DESY will start building more bridges between theory and experiment and between LHC and ILC in May (next year). Philip Bechtle, currently a post-doc at the BaBar […]
Unprecedented: 13.1 nm for FLASH!
Shortest wavelength generated with DESY's pilot facility for the future European XFEL
Shortest wavelength generated with DESY’s pilot facility for the future European XFEL When Albrecht Wagner, Chairman of the DESY Directorate, opened his mailbox in the morning of 27 April and found an email about FLASH’s 13.1-nm success, he replied immediately: “This is exciting and fantastic news! Congratulations to the entire team!” FLASH, DESY’s pilot facility […]