A group of universities in the United States are currently testing prototype detectors that could be used for a muon system in the International Linear Collider. With the help of some high school students from Quarknet, an educational program that brings students and teachers into the laboratories, the University of Notre Dame completed two of […]
Role of ECFA ILC Study Meetings
On 14-17 November, the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) sponsored an ILC workshop in Vienna, Austria. François Richard, chairman of the “Organizing Committee ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider” and GDE member, explained the purposes of these workshops. “What are these ECFA study meetings for? Once a year and during […]
ILC Scientists Organize International School for Linear Colliders
At the Snowmass Workshop, amid the debates over detectors, linac design and costing estimates, a committee organized an accelerator school to recruit new young physicists to join the International Linear Collider collaboration. On 17 August, a nine-person committee chaired by Global Design Effort Director Barry Barish met to start organizing the International School for Linear […]
Petronzio Opens Dialogue Between GDE and FALC
On Friday, 4 November, the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider (FALC) met at Fermilab. At the meeting, representatives from funding agencies and governments around the world discussed the various issues involved with funding an International Linear Collider. “We want to be prepared to respond to the needs of the ILC”, said Roberto Petronzio, President […]
Four TESLA Cavities Delivered to Fermilab ILC cavity
Four unprocessed TESLA cavities recently arrived at Fermilab for measurements and testing. The 9-cell, 1.3 Ghz cavities, manufactured by ACCEL in Germany, will be used to construct the first U.S. cryomodule for International Linear Collider R&D near the end of 2006. “We plan to use the four cavities from ACCEL and four other cavities to […]
ATF – A Unique Facility for Nano-beam
Traditional circular accelerators around , like LEP and KEKB, accelerate electrons and positrons in rings into opposite directions respectively. A bunch of electrons and another bunch of positrons encounter each other many times in a ring, and consequently have many chances to collide. In the ILC on the other hand, electrons and positrons are accelerated […]