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Press release: Next-generation particle accelerator is ready for construction

International Linear Collider publishes its Technical Design Report

| 13 June 2013

Tokyo, Geneva, Chicago – 12 June 2013. A five-volume report containing the blueprint for a future particle physics project, the International Linear Collider (ILC), was published today. In three consecutive ceremonies in Asia, Europe and the Americas, the authors of the Technical Design Report for the International Linear Collider, a next-generation particle collider to complement […]

Korea-US Collaboration Center for Accelerator Science opens at Fermilab

| 20 September 2012

Fermilab has a new collaboration centre: on 27 August, the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) of Korea’s Institute for Basic Science opened the Korea-US Collaboration Center for Accelerator Science (KUCC). Korea is planning to build in Korea by 2017 a rare-isotope accelerator, which will have SCRF technology […]

The potential of superconducting niobium cavities

| 17 May 2012

There are more than 30,000 particle accelerators in operation around the world. At Fermilab, US, scientists are collaborating with other laboratories and industry to optimise the manufacturing processes for a new type of powerful accelerator that uses superconducting niobium cavities. View video

New bison at Fermilab

| 19 April 2012

Two new male bison, or bulls, were delivered to Fermilab earlier this month. New bulls are rotated into the Fermilab herd every few years. Read more about it in Fermilab Today.

Doing the cryomodule shuffle

Fermilab completes CM1 run, soon to install CM2

| 19 April 2012

Fermilab researchers will soon take a quantum step towards the realisation of an ILC-type cryomodule. Next week the newly assembled cryomodule RFCA002, familiarly referred to as CM2, will replace CM1 in the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator at the laboratory’s NML test facility. The change-out is a rung up on the R&D ladder, and not only […]

Pushing technology, expanding industry

PAVAC Industries has a way with electron beams, and with the help of a boost developing superconducting radiofrequency technology, they’re taking their beams to the next level

| 12 January 2012

Electron beams aren’t just for colliding. They also happen to be useful tools for welding metals and treating greenhouse gases. PAVAC Industries of Richmond, Canada is all about electron beams – manipulating them and manufacturing machines that use them. The company is currently contracted to develop superconducting radiofrequency technology (SRF) for the ILC. That assignment, […]

Breaking ground for IARC

| 12 January 2012

Image: Reidar Hahn Just before the holiday, members of the US and Illinois governments gathered at Fermilab for a groundbreaking ceremony to officially begin construction on the future Illinois Accelerator Research Center, or IARC. From left to right: Bob Kephart, IARC project director; Jim Siegrist, associate director of the Office of Science for the DOE […]