Rika Takahashi | 16 May 2013Enjoy two different way to gain understanding of the ILC project. Local officials in two ILC construction candidate sites in Japan produced theses promotion videos to invite the laboratory to their region.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: candidate sites, fun, Japan
Video: IN2P3 | 7 March 2013The Moriond conference, one of the most central physics conferences where latest results are presented to the community, is in full swing. Yesterday, Wednesday, was entirely dedicated to "The SM Scalar boson" - or, in other words, the new particle discovered at the LHC. Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments presented their latest results, and its seems that the new particle is compatible with a Higgs boson. The summer conferences will see even more updates - and maybe a confirmation? Find out more about yesterday's talks by viewing the individual talks, or all of the event webcasts kindly made available by IN2P3.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: boson, Higgs, LHC, Moriond
Video: CERN Video productions | 20 December 2012Relive the most exciting scientific moment of the year (and possibly the decade) - watch the announcement of the discovery of a new particle at the Large Hadron Collider again. And again.
1 November 2012...and for those who could not make it to the lecture "The Standard Model, Higgs Boson, Who cares?" by Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg at last week's LCWS12 meeting, the organiser have put it on YouTube. Well, the closing sentence and the question-and-answer session are there – there were sound problems for the lecture itself. However, even the Q&As are well worth watching. And should Weinberg be seen wearing an LCWS volunteer t-shirt and laser pointer any time soon, the video explains why.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: public lecture
Video: DESY | 25 October 2012Coming soon to YouTube channels near you: a complete video tour of the ILC, based on all available CAD data. Road signs have been added for orientation, and a voiceover will explain what you see, and why it looks the way it does. Stay tuned!
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: 3D model, CAD
18 October 2012SLAC's YouTube channel has more on klystrons, and of course the legendary klystron gallery. In a video about SLAC's Vacuum Microwave Device Department (VMDD), introduces itself as those people who build the devices that make SLAC's particle accelerators go: klystrons. These devices generate intense waves of microwave energy that rocket subatomic particles up to nearly the speed of light. Department head Andy Haase takes us behind the scenes where klystrons are born. These devices are developed, designed and fabricated by teams of physicists, engineers and technicians in coordination across several departments within SLAC's Accelerator Directorate. Check out the AD website
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: klystron, RF power, SLAC
Video: CERN | 5 July 2012After all of this week's news, press releases, blog posts, backgrounders and newspaper stories here's more about the Higgs - catchy, rhythmic and full of clever lyrics. If you think you've still not grasped the Higgs mechanism this song will stick in your head! It's "The Particle Physicists' Song" (based on "The Hippopotamus Song" by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann), with lyrics by Danuta Orlowska, performed by the CERN choir in the CERN Control Room in 2010. Enjoy and pass the tune on to your colleagues...
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: CERN, control room, Higgs
21 June 2012In a 2009 video interview with the BBC, new Linear Collider Director Lyn Evans talks about how he, a miner's son from Wales, became project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He says that "a random walk of life" brought him from Swansea to CERN, now another (not quite so random) walk of life has delivered a new challenge: uniting the linear collider efforts.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: biography, Linear Collider Director
Video: AAA | 14 June 2012A taster of the fun things the new Japanese ILC website (see this week's feature story) has in store: with the help of a bunch of batteries, Dr Higgs explains how the ILC works to a child and his mother. In a cartoon, of course.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: accelerator, cartoon
Video: Fermilab | 17 May 2012There are more than 30,000 particle accelerators in operation around the world. At Fermilab, US, scientists are collaborating with other laboratories and industry to optimise the manufacturing processes for a new type of powerful accelerator that uses superconducting niobium cavities.
Category: Video of the week | Tagged: Fermilab, SCRF
