Every scientist can tell you about the beauty of his or her research. But while a small bump in a curve may delight particle physicists, most people just see a bunch of coloured lines. And the perfection of a complex theoretical model is evident only for a select few. Probably everybody would agree that science […]
Press statement LCWS2016
A new management team will lead the Linear Collider Collaboration from January 2017. The members of this team were announced in Morioka, Japan, on Tuesday 6 December at the 2016 Linear Collider Workshop. The term of office for this new team is three years. The Linear Collider Collaboration unites two potential future particle colliders, the […]
SiD optimisation group moves towards new detector model after PNNL meeting
With LCWS in Morioka just over eight weeks away, and several new students from the University of Oregon, University of California at Santa Cruz and University of Texas at Arlington joining the optimisation effort, the SiD optimisation group decided that the time was right to hold a workshop dedicated to getting new users up to […]
The LC NewsLine guide to… Morioka noodles
LCWS 2016 is one and half month away. LC NewsLine received a welcome message from Morioka to invite you to LCWS. If you have not registered yet, sign up now! Message from Kunihisa Yamura, Chairman, Councilfor Realizing the ILC: “It’s such a pleasure to have LCWS 2016 in Morioka-Iwate. We are delighted to have an opportunity to welcome […]
From symmetry: You keep using that physics word
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Physics can often seem inconceivable. It’s a field of strange concepts and special terms. Language often fails to capture what’s really going on within the math and theories. And to make things even more complicated, physics has repurposed a number of familiar English words. Much like Americans in England, folks from beyond the realm of […]
From Symmetry Magazine: Small cat, big science
Hello Kitty meets ILC
Particle physics – well, not too many people feel it familiar. That is one of the biggest issue for the communication effort of the International Linear Collider. Japanese government has been seriously discussing if Japan should host this huge international science project, setting up the expert panel. The panel pointed out that the ILC should […]
In the light of new accelerators
Advancing superconducting cavities for present and future projects
At the TTC meeting (TESLA Technology Collaboration meeting) scientists from all over the world came together to present their advances for superconducting radiofrequency cavities and related topics. This summer meeting from 5 to 8 July 2016 was hosted by CEA in Saclay, near Paris in France, where the production of the European XFEL (X-ray free […]
Practi-Cal
Better together: two technological prototypes of the high-granularity calorimeters for a future ILC detector have been tested together with particle beams at CERN in a combined mode. The Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype with its 48 layers and the Silicon Electromagnetic CALorimeter (SiECAL) with its 10 units, both part of the CALICE collaboration, spent two […]
The new ILD structure
The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of two detector concepts which are under study for the International Linear Collider. ILD started about ten years ago with the merger of two different concept groups. The concept group developed a detector design which was documented in the ILC’s Technical Design Report TDR. Over the past few […]