The International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) sponsors a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics” every three years. This year’s four-day international exchange of information, held at CERN from 3 to 6 October, concentrated on plans for future facilities in the field of particle physics. In addition, the seminar reviewed the new results from […]
From iSGTW: New accelerators, now just a CLIC away
FALC meets at CERN
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), an informal group of agency representatives, held its 19th meeting at CERN on 6 October. Since its inception, a central role of FALC has been to provide oversight for our efforts towards a linear collider, especially regarding resources. Over the years, FALC has expanded its scope to include […]
Jean-Pierre Delahaye retires
Images: Erk Jensen (retirement reception) and Perrine Royole-Degieux (LCWS talk) Earlier this month Jean-Pierre Delahaye retired as CERN’s CLIC Study Leader. A reception was held in his honour at CERN. At this year’s International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders, he was given a conference banner signed by members of the linear collider community.
from CERN Bulletin: Detectors on the drawing board
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 […]
First linear collider power distribution and pulsing workshop
Lowering power consumption is not only an earth-friendly undertaking. It is also a key issue for particle physicists to solve to design the next generation of collider experiments. Detectors will measure signals recorded in millions of readout channels. At the same time, the pulsed-bunch structure of the future lepton collider beams suggests that detectors should […]
“Crazy” years await us – or maybe not
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Juan Fuster, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Europe.
“…acreditó su ventura, morir cuerdo y vivir loco” (… a crazy man his life he passed, but in his senses died at last) Epitaph of Samson Carrasco upon the tomb of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part two 1615) The book written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605 (part I) and […]
Interim report from the ILC-CLIC general issues group
On 11 January 2010 the ILC Steering Committee and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC) Collaboration Board created a working group to exploit synergies and discuss general issues involving the linear collider. That group has met regularly throughout the last year and submitted an interim report to their respective oversight groups this month. So far, […]
Textbook tests with tungsten
CERN's linear collider detector group joins forces with CALICE in building the world's first tungsten hadronic calorimeter.
In a hall for test beam experiments at CERN, next to the CLOUD climate experiment and an irradiation facility, sits a detector prototype that is in many ways a first. It's the first ever hadronic sandwich calorimeter (HCal) prototype made of tungsten. It's the first prototype for a detector for the Compact Linear Collider Study […]