11 April 2011 Fermilab 10 Questions for a Particle Physicist
Former President of India gives talk at Fermilab
BlogLine – 21 April
Seamless cavity performance
Laboratories in the US begin to take a serious look at hydroforming as a method for creating ILC-type cavities.
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 […]
Tumbling opens possibilities
Fermilab scientists develop a method of ultra-fine polishing for the interior walls of accelerating cavities.
Spatterings, pits, defects in weld beads – these are the thorns in the sides of many a newly minted accelerator cavity, marring their interior walls and getting in the way of healthy accelerating gradients. Scientists at Fermilab are testing a new method of removing these blemishes from superconducting radiofrequency cavities. It’s called centrifugal barrel polishing, […]
From symmetrybreaking: Tevatron to shut down at end of FY2011
Winter wonder lab
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab begins operation of first SRF cryomodule
Editor’s note: Watch a video of the installation of the first SRF cryomodule at Fermilab. At particle physics laboratories around the world, people have closely followed a much anticipated cooldown at Fermilab. Years of effort by more than 100 staff members at Fermilab have led to the cooldown of Cryomodule 1 at the laboratory’s SRF […]
From Fermilab Today: Introducing the ICPA: The right tool for the right job
Giorgio Apollinari, head of the Technical Division, wrote this week’s column. Giorgio Apollinari Developing and improving superconducting radio-frequency technology is an important goal for Fermilab. SRF technology allows us to conceive and plan for future accelerators, such as Project X, the ILC or the Muon Collider, or for energy production applications such as Accelerator Driven […]
“Set it and forget it!”
Fermilab and KEK scientists recently hooked up a new cavity tuning system to the various cavities in the so-called cavity-tuner zoo at KEK. This zoo, comprising eight superconducting radiofrequency cavities fabricated by four different vendors from three different regions, was the testing ground for a new development in what is called Lorentz force detuning (LFD) […]