Marcel Vos (IFIC Valencia, Spain), with help from Igor Rubinsky and Hanno Perrey (DESY, Germany), Carlos Marinas and Theresa Obermann (Bonn University, Germany), and David Cussans (Bristol University, UK)
ilc-newsline | 25 July 2013
Three detector R&D collaborations developing the next generation of pixel detectors tested their systems in a combined test beam. The goal is to build a beam telescope that will bring users not only precise information about where particles went, but also when they passed through the device under test – a much-needed novelty for many […]
SLAC prepares for a test beam of an electromagnetic calorimeter specific to the proposed SiD detector
Julianne Wyrick | 11 July 2013
Researchers are taking a step towards the realisation of the International Linear Collider’s (ILC) SiD detector with a test beam of a SiD-specific electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) planned for this month at SLAC. This initial test beam could actually be considered a “test” test beam, as this run will utilise a partial calorimeter. Researchers involved in […]
Power-pulsing tests on the SiW electromagnetic calorimeter yield promising results
Barbara Warmbein | 18 April 2013
Particle detectors are expected to detect a lot of signal and very little background noise so that scientists can see what went on in their detector without being distracted by irrelevant signals. The technological prototype of the silicon-tungsten (SiW) electromagnetic calorimeter passed its first test in summer 2012 with flying colours with a signal to noise […]
Daisy Yuhas | 18 April 2013
When particles collide, they often produce sprays of new particles called jets. Given the complexity of these particles’ interactions, measuring the energy of jets with high precision is a formidable challenge. New detector designs, such as those being developed for the ILC and CLIC, are based on a paradigm called particle flow which will allow […]
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 21 March 2013
The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) officially started at the Vancouver Linear Collider Board (LCB) meeting in February 2013, and the new organisation is slowly taking shape. I was appointed Associate Director for the Physics & Detector portion of the new structure. LCC director Lyn Evans told us that he thought the task assigned to this […]
Barry Barish | 7 February 2013
The final deliverable for the Global Design Effort (GDE) is the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC. We completed a draft TDR last November and submitted it for review. The accelerator volumes of the TDR consist of one volume on the R&D programme accomplishments and future programme and a second volume on the ILC […]
Sakue Yamada | 7 February 2013
The Letter-of-Intent (LOI) period of the physics and detector activity of the ILC is coming close to completion. The achievements of the R&D studies during the period have been summarised in the detailed baseline design report (DBD), which will soon be submitted to ILCSC as part of the ILC’s Technical Design Report. It is being […]
Marcel Vos reports on behalf of the collaboration
ilc-newsline | 24 January 2013
Solid-state devices for charged particle tracking proved their value in high energy physics in the most internal layers of the experiments of the Large Electron Positron Collider LEP at CERN, where they provided precise information on the production vertex of charged particles. These silicon micro-strip detectors consisted of a thin reverse-biased pn-junction segmented in narrow […]
Sakue Yamada | 6 December 2012
The draft of the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD) of ILC physics and detectors is complete and has been submitted to the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILC Steering Committee (ILCSC) for review. This report presents the achievements of physics and detector R&D activities during the Letter-of-Intent process (LOI) since 2007. It summarises the […]
Steinar Stapnes | 6 December 2012
It is reporting season. As you all know the ILC community is hard at work producing the Technical Design Report that also includes the Detector Baseline Design reports. Similarly, the CLIC collaboration with associated Detector and Physics studies group have been hard at work completing the CLIC Conceptual Design Report (CDR). The three CDR volumes […]
