NewsLine

Seamless cavity performance

Laboratories in the US begin to take a serious look at hydroforming as a method for creating ILC-type cavities.

| 7 April 2011

Researchers in the US may soon be pumping their cavities into shape. Last year Fermilab scientists put out a call to industrial companies to propose a procedure for hydroforming ILC-type cavities. They hope that by next year, the selected company will provide Fermilab with three hydroformed nine-cell cavities for testing. “Hydroforming’s a good idea whose […]

From Fermilab Today: Fine-tuning the instruments of acceleration

| 26 August 2010

Achieving resonance in a scientific collaboration is no small feat, but scientists at Fermilab, DESY and KEK have come together to do exactly that: They’ve improved the mechanism that keeps superconducting radio frequency cavities in tune. Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division and DESY staff, with financial assistance from KEK, recently built four new tuning machines […]

The German way to the forum

| 15 July 2010

Many different institutes and labs in Germany are involved in the development of a time projection chamber (TPC) for the ILD detector. Some ideas are so good that you have to export them when you move from one country to the other. This is especially the case in a global project like the ILC, where […]

A telescope road movie

A story about how everybody can bring science forward

| 10 June 2010

Telescope transport now departing from Halle II. Image: Barbara Warmbein I don't usually start stories for ILC NewsLine with the word 'I'. This time I have to make an exception, because for a change I was not merely a spectator and communicator of science, but a facilitator (of sorts). One of the actors in something […]

Experts eye the eyes of the future

Two-day silicon photomultiplier workshop at DESY

| 25 February 2010

Sometimes detector projects that are still at a planning stage can tell detector projects that are already taking data what hardware to use. This is certainly the case when the R&D project has been using, trying and testing a technology that the ‘old hand’ is considering for its upgrade: a relatively new type of sensor […]

Successful beginning of S1 global at KEK

| 28 January 2010

Four superconducting accelerating cavities have been successfully assembled at KEK’s Superconducting RF Test Facility (STF). From 14 to 22 January, the assembly team of technical staff from DESY and Fermilab visited KEK, and completed cavity-string assembly work in the STF cleanroom, making a wonderful start for S1 global, a crucial system test towards realising the International […]