Image: DESY A delegation from the prefectures Fukuoka and Saga on the Japanese island Kyushu visited two European labs, CERN and DESY, last week to learn about existing research infrastructures and the labs’ experiences with management, administration, local communication and a whole lot more. The region is one of two possible Japanese sites for the […]
CERN balances linear collider studies
At CERN, gradually formed cooperation between CLIC and the ILC is the way to go
The forces behind the two most mature proposals for a next-generation collider, the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study, have been steadily coming together, with scientists from both communities sharing ideas and information across the technology divide. In at least nominal support of cooperation between the two, CERN in Switzerland, […]
The LHC performance and prospects
The Tevatron at Fermilab, US, was turned off last week and now the high energy frontier has officially moved across the Atlantic Ocean to CERN and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. We have great expectations for LHC physics, since historically higher energy has been our most effective probe to new discoveries in particle […]
ASACUSA to precisely measure antiproton mass
Europe launches update of strategy for particle physics
As the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, is delivering its first results and as neutrino particles continue to reveal their properties in experiments around the world, particle physicists discuss the future of the field. During an exceptional session of the European Committee for Future Accelerators at the EPS-HEP2011 conference on 23 July, the particle […]
From symmetry breaking: Higgs buzz at summer physics conference
From CERN Bulletin: In conversation with Nobel Laureate Jack Steinberger
A particle detector in space: interview with Maurice Bourquin from AMS
When Maurice Bourquin participated in the first meeting between particle physicists and representatives of NASA in Houston, US, to understand the opportunity offered by the International Space Station (ISS) to support a particle physics experiment in space, he probably didn’t expect that his detector would finally fly 17 years later. A pioneer in the Alpha […]
from CERN: LHC sets world record beam intensity
Geneva, 22 April 2011. Around midnight this night CERN’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 1032 cm-2s-1. This exceeds the previous world record of 4.024 × 1032 cm-2s-1, which was set by the US Fermi National […]
FALC discusses future programmes in particle physics
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), an informal committee of particle physics funding agency representatives, held their eighteenth meeting at SLAC on 22 January 2010. I previously reported on an interesting exchange meeting between the Global Design Effort Executive Committee and FALC that took advantage of the fact that their meeting immediately followed our […]