From 27 to 29 August, the POSIPOL 2014 workshop was held at the brand-new library at Ichinoseki-city, Iwate prefecture, Japan. Scientists discussed issues of polarised positron sources, high-intensity positron sources, X-ray/Gamma-ray sources, and their applications. The R&D on positron source technology is crucial for the realisation of the proposed future linear colliders, ILC and CLIC. On […]
Challenges and goals for the LCWS14 in Belgrade 6-10 October
As the summer conferences are taking place, providing – we hope – further physics guidance for us, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop which in 2014 will take place from 6 to 10 October […]
Physics and detector organisation – Progressing on delicate balances
In the charge drafted by the ILCSC nearly two years ago, the responsibility of the associate director for physics and detectors of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) was stated as follows: “He/she will coordinate the world-wide effort to develop advanced detectors that are appropriate for either accelerator technology…Initially, the Associate Director will focus on Building […]
The CLIC workshop 2014
The yearly CLIC collaboration meeting took place at CERN on 3-7 February 2014. A record participation of more than 300 scientists/students from the more than 70 collaborating institutes set the scene for a very busy and lively week. After completing the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) in 2012, and the European Strategy update in 2013, the […]
French Linear Collider community meets to reinforce links with world-wide partners
CEA/Irfu and CNRS/IN2P3 organised a special event called “Irfu Linear Collider Days” from 27 to 29 November 2013. It served as an opportunity to discuss the French Linear Collider landscape in the areas of physics, theory and phenomenology, as well as accelerator and detector technologies. This was the second “Journées Collisionneur Linéaire (JCL)” of the […]
Power napping for detectors
CLIC is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing
If physicists had it their way, detectors of the future would be powered with air. They want no material and no electronic noise to disturb their measurements. Powering by air isn’t a realistic option, so electrical engineers are tackling the challenge, putting a lot of effort into keeping noise down and material out. One of them […]
From concept to consortium
SiD workshop at SLAC
The SiD detector concept held a workshop at SLAC from 14 to 16 October. This was the first workshop held since the completion of the Detailed Baseline Design document and was an opportunity to consider the next steps in detector development and organisation of the concept. The workshop agenda can be found here. The next phase […]
The CLIC 2014 workshop at CERN
As the worldwide linear collider community comes together during the LCWS 2013 meeting in Tokyo next week, the CLIC collaboration has already started to plan their next major event, the 2014 CLIC workshop at CERN from 3 to 7 February. The yearly CLIC workshop brings together accelerator, detector and physics experts directly involved or connected […]
Stairway study
After publishing the physics and detector chapters for the CLIC Conceptual Design Report organised only through working groups on various different study topics and detector R&D projects, the CLIC physics and detector community has spent the last months putting a new organisation in place: the CLIC detector and physics study. So far, 19 institutes have […]
Common ground in ILC and CLIC detector concepts
The Compact Linear Collider and International Linear Collider will accelerate particles and create collisions in different ways. Nonetheless, the detector concepts under development share many commonalities. CERN physicist Dominik Dannheim explains that CLIC detector plans are adaptations of the ILC detector designs with a few select modifications. “When we started several years ago, we did […]