One of Fermilab’s most distinct buildings now has a new resident. Last month, members of the CALICE collaboration moved their calorimeters into the newly renovated Meson Test Beam Facility. They will test the calorimeters with low- and high-energy particle beams during the next two years. “Fermilab is very pleased to host the collaboration,” said Fermilab […]
From Fermilab Today: Fermilab reaches milestone with successful cavity test
A successful test of a dressed 3.9 GHz superconducting radiofrequency cavity last week put Fermilab among an elite group that can produce cutting-edge, high-powered accelerator components. Fermilab employees need to test three more cavities before they can assemble a cryomodule for shipment to DESY for use in the laboratory’s free-electron laser accelerator. The collaboration with […]
From Fermilab Today: SCRF meeting establishes compatibility framework
Scientists from around the world work to develop components for future linear accelerators that use superconducting radiofrequency cavities. Research efforts should allow for a more efficient and cost-effective approach to furthering this technology. But only if those individual components, in particular the SCRF cavities, will work together. Last week’s SCRF meeting held at Fermilab focused […]
From Fermilab Today: India’s RRCAT director tours U.S. laboratories
If the ILC could be defined by one thing it would be superconducting radiofrequency technology or SCRF. This article from Fermilab Today describes how India is planning to work with US labs on developing this technology.
Vinod Sahni, the director of India’s Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology, spent the greater part of December visiting U.S. laboratories. Tour stops included Brookhaven, SLAC and Fermilab, where he had the opportunity to discuss such activities as superconducting radiofrequency technology and Project X. RRCAT, a multi-program laboratory located outside Indore, India, is currently commissioning […]
From Fermilab Today: ILC Citizens’ Task Force forges ahead
With funding for ILC R&D cut this year, and the possible start of construction postponed, the ILC Citizens’ Task Force could have turned their backs on the proposed project. They didn’t. Instead, they rallied behind the value of community involvement in planning for building the ILC at Fermilab. ILC Citizens’ Task Force members Vicki Danklefsen, […]
Project X at Fermilab
Director’s Corner 20 September 2007 Barry Barish Project X at Fermilab “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Romeo and Juliet II, ii, 1-2) In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare dramatised the lack of significance of the actual name given to […]
Piece by piece
Fermilab and DESY collaborate to build the first U.S. cryomodule
The 1200 parts started to arrive at Fermilab in June. When fully assembled, these many parts will make up the first cryomodule for International Linear Collider R&D in the United States. The ILC will ultimately require 1680 of these cooled modules that hold the superconducting cavities, maintaining a temperature only two degrees above absolute zero. […]
Construction of Fermilab’s ILC Test Area moves forward
As ILC research and development efforts ramp up around the world, Fermilab is preparing to make an important contribution. Engineers and technicians at the lab’s new ILC Test Area (ILCTA) have worked hard all summer creating a state-of-the-art cryomodule test facility, and the infrastructure is almost complete. Getting ready to house the first crymodules: Fermilab’s […]
Good vibrations at Fermilab
Vibrations in the cryomodules in the International Linear Collider are actually not a good thing. The slightest disruption can throw off the alignment of the super sensitive beams and prevent them from colliding. The stringent beam dynamic requirements in the ILC therefore make vibration studies important, which is why Fermilab recently installed measuring devices called […]
Collaborating for the beam
When the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) group at KEK decided to upgrade their beam position monitor system in 2005, Marc Ross had a solution. Based at SLAC at the time, he was a longtime collaborator with KEK and familiar with the instrumentation systems used throughout Fermilab’s accelerator complex. In 2006, Ross became the head of […]