EU project E-JADE fosters exchange between European and Japanese researchers
Oskar Hartbrich is a PhD student who specialises in developing state-of-the art calorimeters for future ILC detectors. He is also a specialist for full detectors simulations, and he has just spent nine weeks in Japan getting even deeper into this role, sitting side by side with other experts from Tokyo and Shinshu universities to further […]
A delegation from Kesen-Numa City, from Japan, led by the Mayor Mr. Shigeru Sugawara, visited CERN and the area around it from 18 to 20 May. The group consisted of 16 representatives from the city’s Council, the Commercial and Industry Association, the Board of Education, the Reconstruction and Policy Planning Division and many other official bodies. […]
The Japanese town Kesen-Numa has large expertise in the fishing and port industry, but they have never hosted a major international lab. A delegation recently visited CERN to learn how these labs work, what they need and what benefit they bring to their neighbours. Their visit included a trip to the site of the CMS […]
Last week during the Asian Regional Workshop ALCW 2015 held in Tsukuba, the ILC broke with the tradition of staying in one place when the workshop participants moved en masse to Tokyo for what is best described as a multicultural extravaganza in support of the International Linear Collider. Taking advantage of the workshop’s location in Japan […]
The InGrid chip is an ingenious little thing. It is essentially a Timepix chip equipped with 256×256 pixels. On top of these sits a grid that features a hole over each pixel. Within the 50-µm gap, a strong electric field is generated. This means that electrons flying through one of those holes feel this field and are […]
The CLIC annual workshop, held at CERN from 26 to 30 January, did not only bring together nearly 300 accelerator and detectors experts to discuss the next stages of the project – it also featured a session on possible applications from CLIC technology, which drew experts from other fields such as light sources, medical research […]
AIDA-2020 proposal selected – 10 million euros of funding for detector R&D
Good news for detector developers in Europe: the AIDA-2020 proposal to the European Commission has been selected to be funded as part of the Horizon 2020 programme. This means that future projects needing state-of-the-art particle detectors like the Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the linear collider will receive a total of ten million euros funding […]
The mayor of Ichinoseki city, Osamu Katsube, and the whole city sent a special gift to CERN for its for its 60th birthday, which it celebrated in 2014: a red chanchanko set. It consists of a red vest, hat and folding fan. “‘Kanreki’ is one of the ancient traditions of celebrating longevity. It is held to celebrate the […]
CERN and KEK have a long history of collaboration. An agreement signed at KEK on 21 November puts this on even firmer ground: both labs will establish CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative effort on accelerator R&D and construction projects of mutual interest.. There are a number of key projects that fall into this category: the […]