At a time when the Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to start up in 2007 and the Tevatron at Fermilab will shut down by the end of this decade, the particle physics program in the United States is at a crossroads. Should the United States fold its cards and determine that the field of particle […]
Electron Accelerator R&D for the Energy Frontier
Three European-funded projects, CARE/ELAN, EUROTeV and Euroleap, will meet at LAL, Orsay to review present activities and discuss future plans. In the context of actively preparing for future electron accelerators and colliders, there will be a two and a half day meeting at LAL, Orsay starting on 15 May. Three European-funded projects (CARE/ELAN, EUROTeV and […]
MAC – Thinking Different
“We will all give our very best to support the ILC design effort in achieving a design that both works and doesn’t waste resources,” says Ferdinand Willeke, freshly-appointed chairman of the brand-new machine advisory committee – MAC. The committee is a group of 17 ‘wise old men’ who all have a lot of experience and […]
Designing the Perfect Cryomodule for the ILC
The current proposal for the 4th generation cryomodule. Using state-of-the-art technology, cryomodules are vessels that contain superconducting cavities in a linear accelerator. Inside the module, liquid helium cools the cavities to -271° C, only slightly warmer than the coldest possible temperature. The superconducting cavities operate at these super-cool temperatures, pumping more and more energy into […]
Linear Collider Forum of America Hosts Next ILC Industrialization Meeting at SLAC
At the first LCFOA meeting, attendees received a tour of the ILC test area at Fermilab. The Linear Collider Forum of America, a not-for-profit industrial forum, will hold its spring 2006 meeting at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Menlo Park, CA on 1-2 May. Speakers will include Barry Barish, Director ILC Global Design […]
University of Michigan Experiments with Silicon Microstrip Detectors
Haijun Yang of the University of Michigan adjusts the alignment of the frequency scanned interferometer system. Because high precision measurements will be the hallmark of experiments at the International Linear Collider, the project will require a detector with highly technical components to accurately measure the properties of the emerging particles. From beam position monitors to […]
Help Your GDE Communicators
Attend the ILC Communications Meeting at KEK
On the week after the International Accelerator School for Linear Collider, InterAction communicators and ILC outreach committee members from all three regions will meet at KEK on 29-31 May to discuss the issues of ILC commmunications. Anyone who is interested in ILC communications is encouraged to attend. Provisioned members are InterAction, ILC communicators, regional ILC […]
Students Selected for International Accelerator School For Linear Colliders
More than 500 students applied to the International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders, which will be held in Sokendai, Hayama, Japan in May. As the projected timeline currently stands for the International Linear Collider, the machine will start running in about a decade or so. While some physicists view retirement as a novel concept, ILC […]
Ten Thousand Eyes On New Physics
In a tent in a test hall at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, the hadron calorimeter is learning how to see. This calorimeter – an essential part in all proposed detector designs for the ILC – measures the energy of all those particles that make it through the dense electromagnetic calorimeter. It does this with the […]
Costing Guidelines for the Reference Design Report Available Online
While figuring out how to smash electrons and positrons at an energy level of 500 GeV in a tunnel that is approximately 25 kilometers long could be considered a minor challenge, one of the largest hurdles for the International Linear Collider is developing accurate costing estimates. While at first estimating the cost of something might […]