Particle physics will always need calorimeters, so particle physicists are always trying to optimise, tweak and update their calorimeter systems for the best possible measurements. The CALICE collaboration plays a leading role in this, and their most recent prototype for a hadronic calorimeter has just been completed and is now at CERN for a round […]
Gearing up to final form
Technical design of Silicon-Tungsten ECAL of ILD reaches milestone
The SiW-ECAL is one of the designated detector technologies for the ILC’s planned ILD detector. (Read more about it here.) Sandwiched between the tracking detectors and the hadronic calorimeter, it would measure the energies of electrons and photons emerging from the collisions, and catch the first hadronic interactions Over the years and continuous improvement of prototypes, […]
Working together on Linear Collider software tools
Within the Linear Collider community there is a long tradition of sharing the core software tools needed for detector studies and physics benchmarking. A large software suite is required to cover the whole chain from event generation and subsequent simulation of particles in the detector to full event reconstruction and physics interpretation. Constantly improving and […]
Accelerated art
Visitors to the campus of the german research centre DESY were treated to very special creative collisions in the autumn. Fifteen artists from all across Germany had put heads together with dark-matter hunting scientists from DESY for the research centre’s first art-meets-science event ”Dark Matter”. Their works, ranging from a walk-in dark matter expe- rience, a […]
German teachers get a taste of ILC R&D
Even if the ILC can’t solve the remaining riddles of particle physics yet, its development already does some good. The latest example: two labs at DESY where components for the ILC are developed and tested helped to improve physics classes at German high schools. Ten German teachers participated in the first teacher training programme about […]
Calorimeter under telescope scrutiny
In the last years, the various prototypes for one of the possible future hadronic calorimeters – that part of a detector that measures the energy of all passing particles – have gone through a broad variety of tests in a variety of configurations. However, they have never before been tested in connection with a beam […]
See you, summer students
Summer is drawing to a close, and with it ends another season that often turns lab life on its head and has changed many people’s lives: summer student season. As the students from around the world finish off their projects, present their work to their fellow students and stock up on lab t-shirts, some leave […]
Tunnel visions for civil engineers
A delegation from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers including its president took to Europe last month to have a look at civil engineering project for large science facilities. They visited CERN and DESY to look at past and current building projects, which they would use as a reference in case ILC is constructed in […]
From metal sheet to particle accelerator (part 3 of 3)
Into the yellow pipes
For the operation of the European XFEL, 800 cavities will be installed in 100 accelerator modules. The cavity production has already been outlined in the two previous stories published in LC NewsLine (and first published in DESY inForm). For their assembly, there is a weekly transport of cavities to France. From there, they return to […]
From metal sheet to particle accelerator (part 2 of 3)
Into the cold: cavities for the European XFEL put to the test
Eight hundred superconducting cavities for the European XFEL have to be passed through the hands of experts. Their industrial production which was completed in September was covered in the previous issue. However, it is still a long way to go for DESY and its partners to a complete particle accelerator. In this issue, you can […]