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 […]
2020 on the horizon
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 […]
From DESY inForm: Accelerator – stonewashed
How cavities are refined in a type of tumbler
Usually it’s basic research – especially for particle accelerators – that pioneers new technology. But in this case the researchers obviously had a little inspirational snoop at Levi’s or any other jeans manufacturer’s. Recently, DESY’s superconducting TESLA cavities have started to be surface-treated with a stonewashing equipment – accelerators stonewashed, so to say. While jeans […]
From DESY inForm: Under one roof
New ILC cavity laboratory opens
Cavity experts always have one goal in mind: to reach a higher gradient for the superconducting accelerator structures – in serial production. The cavity production for the X-ray laser European XFEL runs at full speed. However, the precondition for industrial production of the cavities for the International Linear Collider is to reliably obtain the intended […]
Running like an electron
Hundreds of children (as well as some playful adults) turned into human electrons at the ILC exhibit for the German accelerator lab DESY’s Open Day on 2 November. The group that normally takes care of linear collider technologies – cavity inspection, diagnostics, cavity treatments and the like – developed a mini particle accelerator for the […]
Doors open wide
Every few years, CERN opens its doors to the general public. The last “Open Days” took place in 2008 before the LHC startup. The present long shutdown of the CERN facilities provides an ideal opportunity to continue this tradition, which is essential in establishing trust in the local communities as well as giving the public […]
SLAC inaugurates a new era for the future ILC (twice)
A group of SLAC physicists and engineers celebrate the handover of the ILC Technical Design Report.
The University of Tokyo, CERN and Fermilab weren’t the only locations celebrating the handover of the International Linear Collider’s (ILC) Technical Design Report on 12 June. SLAC employees who have worked on the ILC had a party of their own: the group watched a live stream of the American event and enjoyed a cake topped […]
Tunnel vision
During the ECFA LC2013 workshop that took place a the end of May at DESY in Hamburg, the LC management, civil engineering and machine-detector interface experts visited the tunnel of the future European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser XFEL – a week before construction was officially finished. DESY and the European XFEL celebrated the completion of the […]
Hiking like an electron
Three DESY scientists tackle a charity trailwalk in Japan
It’s no secret that scientists have a tendency to totally immerse themselves in their work. Sometimes they also immerse themselves into an adventure – like DESY scientists Eckhard Elsen, Karsten Gadow and Carsten Niebuhr. The three of them boarded a plane to Japan in early May in order to take a walk for charity, a […]
The ECFA LC2013 workshop
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia), chair of the Programme Committee of the European Linear Collider Workshop ECFA LC2013
This year, the regional Linear Collider workshop is taking place in Europe at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) from 27 to 31 May 2013. The participants have been welcomed by a spectacular wide chromatic range of greens in Hamburg, accompanied by the inevitable rain and sun that both make this wonderful manifestation of nature possible. The magic […]