On 27 August, one day prior to the POSIPOL 2011 workshop in Beijing – an annual workshop dedicated to polarised positron source R&D for ILC and CLIC – ILC polarised positron source experts gathered to attend an ILC positron collaboration meeting held at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to discuss […]
Important progress on IHEP superconducting cavity
A 1.3-Gigahertz low-loss type large-grain nine-cell superconducting cavity called IHEP-01 produced at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, achieved an accelerating gradient of 20 Megavolts per metre in its first vertical test at KEK on 1 July. This may not be the design gradient yet, but it marks an important progress […]
Calorimeter Olympics in Beijing
The International Conferences on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (also known as the Calor Conference series, started in October 1990 at Fermilab) address all aspects of calorimetric particle detection and measurement, with emphasis on high-energy physics experiments. This year, the conference of Calor 2010, the fourteenth in this series, was held in the Institute of […]
Impressions from Beijing
On 30 March, the Beijing meeting ended on a high note. Nearly 300 participants, together with local and scientific organising committees, worked hard to make this meeting a success while at the same time, in Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) opened a new page in particle physics history. “It’s a day of celebration,” concluded […]
Here is to Beijing – the Great Wall – and windowless seminar rooms
Director’s Corner 25 March 2010 Nick Walker Here’s to Beijing, the Great Wall, and windowless seminar rooms Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. As this copy of ILC NewsLine "hits the streets" most of us will already be in Beijing for the start of ILC2010 […]
After Albuquerque, Beijing
Next march, Tiger Year, a joint meeting of the Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS10) and the International Linear Collider meeting (ILC2010) will be held from 26-30 March 2010 in Beijing, China. Three years after the ILC Reference Design Report release and the preliminary cost estimate of the machine in Beijing, the whole community of accelerator and […]
Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders to be held in Beijing from 7-18 September 2009
In early September 2009, Beijing will serve as host city to roughly 70 outstanding physics students from the Americas, Asia and Europe for a ten-day intensive course entitled the Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders. The Institute of High-Energy Physics (IHEP) will be the host institution. Led by scientific researchers and academic faculty, the […]
One world, one dream
New expressways and subways are under construction. New hotels and apartment buildings are popping up. This city with a population of over 15 million people, which is already big enough, is getting ready for the coming year of increasing visitors who will attend the Olympic Games. This is Beijing. Participants at the CCAST workshop had […]
Chinese participation in ILC
Director’s Corner 15 November 2007 Barry Barish Chinese participation in ILC The symbol of the ILC workshop was the new Beijing National Grand Theatre: a cultural island in the middle of a lake near Tian An Men Square and the Forbidden City (Image courtesy of CCAST). Beijing is a place to mark important ILC milestones. […]
China on the walkway towards the ILC
The Temple of Heaven, a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design in Beijing symbolises the relationship between earth and heaven – the human society and the universe – which stands at the heart of Chinese cosmology. It was the central image on the poster for the 9th ACFA ILC Physics & Detector Workshop and ILC […]