Superconducting cavity development at Fermilab recently reached a major milestone. Fermilab scientists and engineers shipped their first successfully completed and tested 3.9 GHz superconducting module to DESY on Friday, April 24. The module, which consisted of four superconducting cavities and associated infrastructure arrived safely on Tuesday, April 28. It will become part of the German […]
From Fermilab: Collaboration between Fermilab, Indian institutions sets stage for future accelerators
INDORE, India (February 10, 2009) – The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., today announced the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding with four Indian institutions. The MOU establishes collaboration in the areas of superconducting acceleration science and technology and in research and development of superconducting materials. “Ushering in the […]
From symmetry breaking: Project X collaboration forms, experiment moves forward
Project X, a Fermilab-hosted international accelerator facility, could break ground as soon as 2013. A potential location for Project X at Fermilab. Accelerator experts from around the world gathered at Fermilab last month to work toward establishing a formal collaboration and further plans for Fermilab’s proposed proton accelerator. At the meeting held Nov. 21-22, more […]
Harmonics of acceleration
The majority of NewsLine readers are scientists – most of you of the experimental kind. So be honest: how often during the last few weeks, when listening to carols, plucking the strings of your old guitar that you only get out during the holidays or cringing at a dissonant brass band, did you think about […]
Pixel collaboration
R&D on monolithic and vertically integrated pixel detectors
Micro Magic 3D-layout of the 3-tier Fermilab Vertical Integrated Pixel (VIP) chip. Plans are taking shape to form a new group to coordinate and stimulate R&D on monolithic and vertically integrated pixel detectors for scientific applications in high-energy physics and beyond. In a joint message, the directorates of CERN, KEK and Fermilab have offered their […]
World beam test tour at Fermilab
The International Linear Collider requires a detector with excellent performance to fully exploit its physics potential. In order to meet this challenge, significant improvements in the calorimetric performance are needed compared to previous generations of detectors, and new technologies and techniques are being developed. To test those technologies and techniques with particle beams, scientists are […]
First cryomodule moves into NML
Progress at Fermilab's ILCTA
Good news from an experimental hall at the edge of the prairie: Fermilab’s ILC test area in the ‘New Muon Lab‘ (NML) has just taken a major step towards completion with the installation of the first cryomodule on 6 August. The first cryomodule on its way into the NML hall at Fermilab… …on the hook… […]
From Fermilab Today: Citizens’ task force delivers recommendations
When Fermilab reached out to neighbors five years ago to engage community members in laboratory decision making, some people in science and some neighbors doubted it would work. But last week when the second of two task forces presented its recommendations, both sides said the partnership was invaluable and they would do it again. “It […]
From Fermilab Today: Students report on the importance, design of proposed linear collider
Members of the latest group exploring the proposed International Linear Collider lack physics degrees. In fact, they don’t yet have high school diplomas. To teach 35 eighth-graders about particle physics, Batavia Rotolo Middle School teachers Macy Felter and Elizabeth Selander had them study the ILC, the proposed next-generation particle accelerator. “We’ve never tried anything like […]
Globalising R&D
Director’s Corner 15 May 2008 Barry Barish Globalising R&D The coordination of superconducting radiofrequency R&D is central to the Global Design Effort’s mission of bringing the design for the ILC to the point we can make a robust proposal to our governments. Our efforts are becoming globalised more rapidly than we had envisioned. To achieve […]