6.5 TeV in a circulating beam! Since the LHC’s restart on 5 April after its long shutdown, operations have gone smoothly in the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Since 10 April, the machine is holder of a new energy record (breaking the record it set itself), accelerating proton beams up to 6.5 TeV. According to […]
Tech transfer from linear collider to LHC detector
The CMS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is very much a detector at work. It co-found the Higgs particle in 2012 and, although still in Lang-Shutdown-1 mode, it’s ready for the second LHC run. In it: a piece of linear collider technology. Stay tuned for the whole story in a future issue of LC […]
Say “CLIC”!
The CLIC annual workshop, held at CERN from 26 to 30 January, did not only bring together nearly 300 accelerator and detectors experts to discuss the next stages of the project – it also featured a session on possible applications from CLIC technology, which drew experts from other fields such as light sources, medical research […]
Chocolate collision
The Linear Collider Collaboration Directorate was given a special treat during one of the stopovers of the Tohoku visit: ILC corone, a type of chocolate croissant. With chocolate cream on one side (representing electrons) and vanilla cream on the other (representing positrons), and sprinkled with colored chocolate spray as particles, the baker said that they show […]
A kimono for a laboratory
The mayor of Ichinoseki city, Osamu Katsube, and the whole city sent a special gift to CERN for its for its 60th birthday, which it celebrated in 2014: a red chanchanko set. It consists of a red vest, hat and folding fan. “‘Kanreki’ is one of the ancient traditions of celebrating longevity. It is held to celebrate the […]
Summer students reunite at test beam
Many physicists have extremely fond memories of their time as a summer student at labs like DESY in Germany or CERN in Switzerland. Some even describe it as pivotal because they decided to choose particle physics as their area of specialisation after being immersed in a real research environment, surrounded by people with the same […]
Governor of Iwate prefecture visits CERN
Takuya TASSO, Governor of Iwate Prefecture in Japan, visited CERN on 10 November to see CERN’s activities as a leading international research laboratory cooperation in the frontier of particle physics, and its contribution to world-wide science and education, as well as learn about its social impact. He talked about efforts in Iwate to welcome and to anticipate […]
Happy birthday CERN!
Sixty years and nowhere near retirement age: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, celebrated its birthday this Monday with official delegations from 35 countries and many other invited guests. CERN is one of the pillars of linear collider R&D for both accelerators and detectors, so the Linear Collider Collaboration sends its congratulations and hopes that […]
Linear collider scientists gather in Japan
From 27 to 29 August, the POSIPOL 2014 workshop was held at the brand-new library at Ichinoseki-city, Iwate prefecture, Japan. Scientists discussed issues of polarised positron sources, high-intensity positron sources, X-ray/Gamma-ray sources, and their applications. The R&D on positron source technology is crucial for the realisation of the proposed future linear colliders, ILC and CLIC. On […]
Follow ICHEP remotely
“The portrait of the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson we have today is still a very rough sketch,” says Juan Fuster in the ICHEP newsletter published today. The 37th International Conference on High-Energy Phyiscs ICHEP started this week in Valencia, Spain. Follow what’s being discussed by checking the schedule or watch the webcast on Saturday 5 July. The […]