KEK staff perform a facility disaster prevention and training at the accelerator test facility (ATF), recreating laboratory conditions in an emergency situation. One resourceful staff member flips open his cell phone for a light source.
Extracting 1-millisecond beam
At KEK’s superconducting RF test facility, better known as STF, scientists are conducting beam tests of their photocathode RF gun towards beam operation of the accelerator for the Quantum Beam Project. On 22 March, scientists succeeded in the extraction of a 1-millisecond beam for a 162.5-megahertz bunch train. Pictured here is a signal from the […]
Wrestling under an X-ray beam
A beam of particles helps authenticate an early Vincent van Gogh painting
DESY’s synchrotron radiation source DORIS has helped settle a decades-old question of whether van Gogh painted the 1886 Still life with meadow flowers. Using macro scanning X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, scientists were able to analyse the canvas’s layers of paint with greater detail than had been possible previously. Earlier X-ray analyses had shown that a painter […]
Students hunt Higgs too
Young researchers analysing real high-energy collisions from the LHC at CERN. From 27 February to 24 March, about 8000 high school students in 31 countries come to one of about 120 nearby universities or research centres for one day in order to unravel the mysteries of particle physics. Lectures from active scientists give insight in […]
Ghosts in the tunnel
Visitors ramble where electrons will one day whizz: a large number of people working at DESY and the European XFEL were treated to a rare trip underground into the recently completed but still completely empty tunnel for the European XFEL. And empty tunnels make for good images. Read more about the European-XFEL tunnel
Quantum Beam Project being readied for launch
The Quantum Beam Project at KEK’s Superconducting Test Facility is being prepared for start-up. On 27 February, scientists successfully produce and extract the beam from the RF-gun.
GDE Executive Committee visits Jefferson Lab
The Global Design Effort Executive Committee visited Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia, US earlier this month.
Japanese civil engineers visit DESY and CERN
A delegation from the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering visited the European labs CERN and DESY this month to learn about how the laboratories run their projects. They are pictured here about to enter the tunnel under construction for the European XFEL. Read more about the visit in a future issue of ILC NewsLine.
BTR meeting groupies
Image: Nobu Toge KEK hosted the third ILC Baseline Technical Review meeting last month. Read more about the main linac and superconducting radiofrequency technology decisions in this issue’s Director’s Corner.