NewsLine

6 October

| 6 October 2011

  • from symmetry breaking
    4 October 2011
    This week an international organization made public their vision for the future of particle physics across the globe. The International Committee for Future Accelerators have placed on the web their report, “Beacons of Discovery”.
  • from Reuters
    4 October 2011
    The “astounding” discovery that the expansion of the universe is speeding up won the Nobel physics prize on Tuesday for three astronomers whose observations of exploding stars transformed our view of the world, and of how it may end.
  • from Reuters
    3 October 2011
    Gathering for four days at CERN near Geneva, scientists and heads of major research centers around the globe are looking at how to combine resources and funding for the project, the International Linear Collider (ILC).
  • from The Economist
    1 October 2011
    It already looks likely that the successor to the LHC, a device called the International Linear Collider (ILC), will be built in Japan (if it is built at all).
  • from EuCARD
    July – September 2011
    Tasked with verifying the fabrication of CLIC components, “Infinity” is a new precision measuring machine that is now part of the CERN Metrology Service.