Image: DESY The optical inspection system OBACHT at DESY moved to a new lab roughly 25 metres below the surface in one of the former experimental halls of the HERA accelerator. Becoming good neighbours – OBACHT and HERA!
ILC squat team
Image: Nicholas Walker DESY’s Eckhard Elsen, Karsten Buesser and Klaus Sinram take a Segway tour of Granada, Spain, while assessing whether Segways would also be a suitable mode of transport for the ILC tunnel.
Virtual tunnel
Super scientists stand symmetrically
Ancient calligraphy
Summer students of science
TULA tunnels through
Superconductor scientists
Image: George Joch Nearly 400 researchers gathered in Chicago last week for the SRF2011 conference. View full size
International Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics
Images: LPSC/Tomas Jezo During the 2011 Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (HEP 2011) press conference, CERN Director General Rolf Heuer ad libbed for the journalists an explanation of the role of the Higgs boson in the standard model of subatomic particles…with his two hands. “We know everything about the Higgs boson except whether it exists,” […]