Unusually for the holiday season, the car parks are full, finding a table at lunch is a formidable challenge, and people can (more than ever) be found in their offices late into the night. All the evidence points to one thing… the most ambitious particle collider in the world is just a few weeks away […]
Rolf Heuer’s vision of particle physics in Europe
Interview with Rolf Heuer, future Director-General of CERN and currently Research Director at DESY.
Rolf Heuer giving a personal view of the future at last ILC-ECFA Workshop in Warsaw. Photo:Nobu Toge Do you think that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) start-up can help promote particle physics and particle collider projects in general? I think we should benefit from the LHC start-up to communicate the excitement and the importance of […]
The Open Day at CERN – My first encounter with particle physics
Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as
Katrin Voss really need the pain au chocolat géant for breakfast at the CERN cafeteria for getting started with her first visit to CERN on 6 April. Germany’s new CERN/LHC Communicator describes her first impressions of tunnels, detectors and campus life at CERN’s recent Open Day as “a demanding yet rewarding experience”. Katrin Voss’s first […]
ILC meets the CLIC team
After the Large Hadron Collider, the science community agrees that particle physicists will need an electron-positron linear collider to fully understand and discover the potential new science at high energy regimes. Apart from the International Linear Collider – whose ‘cold’ accelerating technology is based on superconducting radiofrequency cavities – another variant of an electron collider, […]
TPC: a digital breakthrough
Digitisation – a key word that could lead to smaller and simpler detectors. Two weeks ago, at Saclay, France, the CEA Time Projection Chamber group of Paul Colas proved it could build a digital TPC for the ILC. A truly collaborative effort, this breakthrough could significantly reduce the cost and simplify the implementation of this […]
Telescope arms open wide
The EUDET telescope, a high-precision device that lets detector developers check the accuracy of their prototype by using particle beams and the EUDET telescope and comparing with accurately its determined tracks, has just finished a marathon in test beams around Europe. During six weeks in beams at DESY and CERN its makers tested it to […]
Lesson-Learning from CMS
Alain Hervé already has the experience of building two enormous detectors under his belt, and it looks like he is going to help in a third one. Technical coordinator at CERN of both L3 at LEP and CMS at the LHC, the Breton has now been called as an expert to help in the interaction […]
Live from the test beam: calorimetry rises from the ashes
This summer, a stage was all the world for some of the men and women of the CALICE collaboration. For the first time, the full prototypes of the electromagnetic calorimeter, the hadronic calorimeter and the tailcatcher and muon tracker (designed and built by international collaborations and assembled in Paris, Hamburg and Northern Illinois respectively) played […]
ILC Project Tools: ILCDoc-Document Search and Store
Director’s Corner 29 March 2007 Barry Barish ILC Project Tools: ILCDoc – Document Search and Store Maura Barone,GDE Project Tools Manager We are in the process of building an integrated set of ILC project tools for communication, data archiving, engineering, costing, scheduling and project management. Already, we make extensive use of communication tools for organising […]
CERN Council launches European Strategy for particle physics
Director’s Corner 20 July 2006 Brian Foster CERN Council Launches European Strategy for Particle Physics Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, GDE European Regional Director. A new strategy document outlining the future directions for particle physics research in Europe was approved unanimously at a special meeting of the CERN Council in Lisbon […]