Over the years, the linear collider input/output event data model has facilitated data sharing between the world’s linear collider detector groups
Leah Hesla | 8 December 2011
The data model that transformed the linear collider detector community from a computational Tower of Babel into a group that inputs with one voice has gotten an update. ILC software developers released LCIO 2.0 this autumn. The new version of LCIO, a particle event data model, includes features that help scientists cope with the increasingly […]
ilc-newsline | 27 October 2011
Barry Barish | 20 October 2011
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has awarded a new five-year award for ILC detector R&D. A kickoff meeting for this grant was held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan from 12-14 September. The new programme is descriptively entitled “a global R&D program of a state-of-the-art detector system for ILC.” The research […]
Jim Brau | 22 September 2011
As we prepare for another linear collider workshop (the 13th LCWS in the 30-year series) and contemplate the ILC reorganisation and next steps following the Technical Design Report and the Detailed Baseline Design Report, I have recently found myself thinking back on the history of the Worldwide Study (WWS) and the valuable role it has […]
Rika Takahashi | 22 September 2011
From 12 to 14 September, about 60 scientists gathered at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, to attend the kick-off meeting for a global R&D programme of a state-of-the-art detector system for the ILC. A large part of ILC detector R&D had been implemented with grants awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), […]
The particle flow algorithm joins smart programming with the high granularity of next-generation particle detectors to measure energies with unprecedented resolution
Leah Hesla | 15 September 2011
The familiar image of a collision event in a particle detector is a beautiful mess: Gossamer lines shoot and spiral every which way from a common point, revealing the paths of the post-collision projectiles. Unfortunately for particle tagging, the tracks almost always end in knotty energy clusters, leading physicists down trails that stop abruptly, unresolved, […]
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Marcel Demarteau, chair and convener of the ILC Detector Common Task Group
Marcel Demarteau | 18 August 2011
Although the actual construction date of the ILC accelerator and its detectors is very uncertain, the impact of the R&D for ILC detectors is very real. We are so immersed in our day-to-day activities, in the analysis of physics and test beam data, in our struggles to obtain funding, that we tend to overlook the […]
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington spend two weeks characterising ILC detector chamber prototypes at Fermilab's Test Beam Facility.
Leah Hesla | 18 August 2011
Three researchers working on a detector for the ILC recently drove their components 1,500 kilometres from Arlington, Texas to Batavia, Illinois to get to know their detectors a bit better. For approximately two weeks, researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) sent muon, proton and pion beams through their chamber prototypes at the […]
Pushing and pulling a detector on its platform brings technical challenges
Leah Hesla | 23 June 2011
Setting the stage for a particle collision event requires orchestration of Wagnerian proportions. Part of the production for the International Linear Collider involves perfectly positioning giant, unwieldy detectors in the particle beamline to capture data from electron-positron collisions. Recently ILC collaborators agreed that steel-reinforced concrete platforms would be used to steadily and nimbly move the […]
Marc Weber (KIT), Georges Blanchot (CERN) and Roman Pöschl (CNRS/LAL) | 16 June 2011
Lowering power consumption is not only an earth-friendly undertaking. It is also a key issue for particle physicists to solve to design the next generation of collider experiments. Detectors will measure signals recorded in millions of readout channels. At the same time, the pulsed-bunch structure of the future lepton collider beams suggests that detectors should […]
