Scientific workshops don’t really need ice breakers, but the CLIC workshop, held from 18 to 22 January at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, had one nevertheless. Coinciding with the first day of the workshop, CERN’s new Director-General Fabiola Gianotti gave her inaugural address to the lab, presenting CERN’s high-energy physics plans for the coming years and […]
ARUP tool shortlisted for prestigious prize
Remember the ingenious civil engineering tool that British consultancy ARUP has developed for CERN’s FCC and that is also being used for site-specific planning of the ILC? That thing where you can play around with shafts, tunnels and rock formations without leaving your desk? It’s been shortlisted for a prestigious award, so keep your fingers […]
CLIC experts meet at CERN
Sometimes even linear-collider experts make semi circles, especially when you have to squeeze more than 200 participants into one picture (and it’s raining). The CLIC workshop was held at CERN from 18 to 22 January. Get the latest on the Compact Linear Collider Study in a future issue of LC NewsLine.
European School of High-Energy Physics
The 2016 CERN-JINR European School of High-Energy Physics will take place in Skeikampen (close to Lillehammer), Norway, 15-28 June 2016. The School is targeted particularly at students in experimental HEP who are in the final years of work towards their PhDs, although candidates at an earlier or later stage in their studies may be considered. […]
LHC Run-2 results to point the way
Time passes, it seems, increasingly quickly and it’s now more than a month since the international Linear Collider Workshop, LCWS2015, took place in Whistler, British Columbia. This marked the latest milestone in our global community’s preparations for a next-generation high-energy linear electron-positron collider to explore (to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld) the ‘known knowns’, namely the physics […]
Study on technical feasibility
Since 2014, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been conducting studies to gather information to decide whether Japan is interested in hosting the ILC. The summary report of the ILC Advisory Panel set up by MEXT for this purpose was outlined in the last edition of NewsLine. In addition […]
Back in the beam
After nearly a year of campaign and some 10 weeks of data taking in various beams at CERN and at DESY, the detector layers, absorbers, support structures and electronics of several calorimeter prototypes for a future ILC detector are back in crates and on their way to DESY and other labs in Germany, Japan and the […]
Here’s one we made earlier
In a large surface building around the corner from the LHC experiment LHCb at CERN, a group of around 100 researchers is hoping to detect dark matter particles by pointing a superconducting magnet at the sun. The CAST project’s magnet – a former test magnet from the LHC – is equipped with an X-ray telescope […]
Calorimeters don’t take holidays
Summer breaks don’t exist for detector prototypes. For almost three weeks in July – around the time that a new temperature record of 39.7 degrees was measured in Geneva – the team working on the technological prototype of a potential hadronic calorimeter for the ILD detector at the ILC took data at the Super Proton […]
LHC is back in business
On 3 June, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months at the record energy of 13 TeV. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next […]