Following the outcome of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, this workshop organised in the context of LCVision will discuss the next steps for a linear collider at CERN, including the technical work in the preparation phase, the long-term evolution with future upgrade options as well as organisational aspects. Participation is free of charge, but […]
First Reflections on the Recommendations of the European Strategy Group
The recently released recommendations of the European Strategy Group discuss Linear Colliders as technologically mature flagship projects which offer a competitive science program in Higgs and Top physics, while not ranking alternative projects beyond the FCC-ee. The next steps for Linear Colliders will be discussed at the LinearCollider@CERN Workshop in early January. by Jenny List, Tatsuya Nakada […]
New CALICE calorimeter sees beam
Particle physics will always need calorimeters, so particle physicists are always trying to optimise, tweak and update their calorimeter systems for the best possible measurements. The CALICE collaboration plays a leading role in this, and their most recent prototype for a hadronic calorimeter has just been completed and is now at CERN for a round […]
Working together on Linear Collider software tools
Within the Linear Collider community there is a long tradition of sharing the core software tools needed for detector studies and physics benchmarking. A large software suite is required to cover the whole chain from event generation and subsequent simulation of particles in the detector to full event reconstruction and physics interpretation. Constantly improving and […]
Gotta catch them all – and fast
It’s not the catchiest of titles – “Energy and time management with high-granularity silicon devices”. But the subject matter is rather catchy, both literally and figuratively: it’s not only about catching particles; it also caught on from one project to another. A recent workshop on silicon detector technology held during the first AIDA-2020 meeting in Hamburg […]
Tunnel visions for civil engineers
A delegation from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers including its president took to Europe last month to have a look at civil engineering project for large science facilities. They visited CERN and DESY to look at past and current building projects, which they would use as a reference in case ILC is constructed in […]
Higgs anniversary pizza
The anniversary of the announcement of the Higgs discovery (which happened on 4 July 2012) was hard to miss at CERN this year. People braced waiting times of more than 30 minutes to have a taste of discovery: the specially created Higgs pizza! Two shoots of asparagus (proton beams) collide in the middle of the […]
Practi-Cal
Better together: two technological prototypes of the high-granularity calorimeters for a future ILC detector have been tested together with particle beams at CERN in a combined mode. The Semi-Digital Hadronic CALorimeter (SDHCAL) prototype with its 48 layers and the Silicon Electromagnetic CALorimeter (SiECAL) with its 10 units, both part of the CALICE collaboration, spent two […]
German particle physics community gives “strongest support” to ILC
It may feel like only yesterday that the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was adopted, but preparations for a new one, planned for 2018/19, are already underway. Germany has now published its first conclusions from a workshop on future electron-positron colliders that are very supportive of the ILC. The German community of […]
Directors from major particle physics labs meet Japanese journalists
On 26 February, members of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) gathered in a conference room in Tokyo, Japan, for the press conference. Joachim Mnich, Research Director at DESY and the current chair of ICFA, Nigel Lockyer, Director of Fermilab, U.S., Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Masanori Yamauchi, Director-General of KEK sat at […]