Last week at Fermilab, a select group of experts discussed whether an accelerator to purely exploit the science around the Higgs(-like) particle found at the LHC should be linear, circular or something completely different. The participants compared the options of a linear 250-GeV electron-positron collider and a circular 125 GeV electron-positron collider from the accelerator […]
Strip teaser
Technological prototype of scintillator-strip calorimeter in its first test beam
A team of two scientists and four students from Shinshu University of Japan and Kyungpook National University of Korea have just packed up their cables, laptops and scintillator strips and left a test beam at DESY with many interesting results in their luggage. They tested the scintillator-strip-based electromagnetic calorimeter (ScECAL), one of the potential layers […]
Which way to the ILC, please?
Drivers stuck in a traffic jam in Ichinoseki city are more likely to wonder about the mysteries of the Universe than about the latest Hollywood movie – at least if they take in the billboards at the side of the road. Japan’s Iwate prefecture in the Tohoku region in the north of the country boasts a […]
Getting it all straight
Linear collider detector experts get it straight – a vision of the XFEL tunnel that is. CLIC detector engineers from CERN visited DESY last week to discuss detector challenges such as earthquake stability, alignment, assembly planning and the construction of the detector’s magnet yoke with their colleagues from the ILC’s ILD detector. They also visited […]
Chancellor Merkel’s first cavity
Chancellor Angela Merkel visited DESY on 19 September for a hall baptism: the experimental hall of DESY’s light source PETRA III is now officially named Max von Laue, after the discoverer of diffraction of X-rays. DESY DG Helmut Dosch presents the German chancellor (who was a physicist before she became a politician) with a miniature […]
Korea-US Collaboration Center for Accelerator Science opens at Fermilab
Fermilab has a new collaboration centre: on 27 August, the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) of Korea’s Institute for Basic Science opened the Korea-US Collaboration Center for Accelerator Science (KUCC). Korea is planning to build in Korea by 2017 a rare-isotope accelerator, which will have SCRF technology […]
European community discusses the future of particle physics
LHC upgrades, linear colliders, muon colliders, neutrino experiments, even theory – the list of projects to discuss on the strategy list was long. The nearly 500 participants at CERN Council’s Open Symposium on European Strategy for Particle Physics did however manage to cover all of those and more. A briefing book will summarise the results […]
I found the Higgs!
On 2 September, KEK in Japan held a laboratory open house. About 4600 people visited KEK’s Tsukuba campus, one-and-a-half times as many as last year. Presumably one of the reasons for the pushed-up number of visitors was the discovery of Higgs-like particle at CERN. At the ILC exhibit, particle badges exclusively designed for the open […]
Cavities at your fingertips
Here’s one we made earlier
Machine graphic updated - can be used in talks and more