What do huge sailing ships, science and India have in common? They were all present at this year’s celebrations for the birthday of Hamburg’s harbour. This year’s special guest country was India, and as DESY has strong links with India especially in the field of photon science, DESY put up a tent in the harbour […]
DESY meets India
More knobs, more knowledge
Long-bunch-train ILC studies are back at FLASH
Accelerator theory and operating experience are all well and good. But if you’re planning and researching the next-generation particle accelerator, you sometimes need to crank things to their limits in order to get a step further. The 9-mA team has descended again on DESY’s FLASH accelerator in March to share control room space with the DESY […]
Wrestling under an X-ray beam
A beam of particles helps authenticate an early Vincent van Gogh painting
DESY’s synchrotron radiation source DORIS has helped settle a decades-old question of whether van Gogh painted the 1886 Still life with meadow flowers. Using macro scanning X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, scientists were able to analyse the canvas’s layers of paint with greater detail than had been possible previously. Earlier X-ray analyses had shown that a painter […]
Ghosts in the tunnel
Visitors ramble where electrons will one day whizz: a large number of people working at DESY and the European XFEL were treated to a rare trip underground into the recently completed but still completely empty tunnel for the European XFEL. And empty tunnels make for good images. Read more about the European-XFEL tunnel
Japanese civil engineers dig deep in Europe
A contribution from the Global Design Effort's civil engineering team
Ten members from the Japanese Society for Civil Engineering’s committee for civil works for future ILC facilities came to Europe in February to look at current civil engineering projects like CERN’s LINAC4 and the European XFEL in Hamburg and to discuss administrative challenges. By the end of March next year, the committee will publish draft […]
Japanese civil engineers visit DESY and CERN
A delegation from the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering visited the European labs CERN and DESY this month to learn about how the laboratories run their projects. They are pictured here about to enter the tunnel under construction for the European XFEL. Read more about the visit in a future issue of ILC NewsLine.
International forum reviews linear collider physics case
2012 will be a decisive year for particle physics and the linear collider projects. What will be the outcome of the update of the European strategy for particle physics? In light of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 2012 results, will the linear collider physics case stay strong? The international community of theorists and experimentalists working […]
ILC technology in the Guinness Book of World Records!
Light as a feather
The PLUME project sets a new milestone for vertex detectors
A group of European physicists, the PLUME collaboration, aims to prototype an ultra-light device intended to equip one of the thinnest and lightest elements at the inner heart of the ILC detectors: the vertex detector. At CERN one month ago, a full-scale prototype equipped with CMOS pixel sensors was successfully tested in beam. At the […]