It may feel like only yesterday that the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was adopted, but preparations for a new one, planned for 2018/19, are already underway. Germany has now published its first conclusions from a workshop on future electron-positron colliders that are very supportive of the ILC. The German community of […]
Fresh funding for technical detector prototypes
Thirty new active calorimeter layers, two engineering prototypes and some ten PhD theses – and that’s only part of the expected harvest of the recent funding approval for detector R&D targeted also towards the ILC in Germany. The German research ministry will support the universities of Bonn, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Mainz, Siegen and Wuppertal with 1.8 […]
Loops and legs for ILC
The International Linear Collider will provide an experimental environment of unprecedented precision. One of the important issues at ILC experiments is the measurement of fundamental parameters with high precision, to match with the precision level of the experiment. The discovery of the Higgs particle brought demands on the ability to make predictions to a new […]
Tunnel vision
During the ECFA LC2013 workshop that took place a the end of May at DESY in Hamburg, the LC management, civil engineering and machine-detector interface experts visited the tunnel of the future European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser XFEL – a week before construction was officially finished. DESY and the European XFEL celebrated the completion of the […]
DESY meets India
What do huge sailing ships, science and India have in common? They were all present at this year’s celebrations for the birthday of Hamburg’s harbour. This year’s special guest country was India, and as DESY has strong links with India especially in the field of photon science, DESY put up a tent in the harbour […]
A new beginning – and no strings attached
This week’s issue features a Director's Corner from Brian Foster, Global Design Effort European Regional Director.
When Albrecht Wagner, former chair of the DESY directorate, first suggested to me that I might consider applying for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in association with Hamburg University and DESY, I didn’t take the idea seriously. I had no intention of leaving Oxford, which is a fantastic place both to live and to work. […]
Present, future and science fiction of particle physics
New Humboldt professor Brian Foster takes office at DESY
In June, Brian Foster will take up his work at DESY and University of Hamburg as a joint professor for experimental physics, with a focus on accelerators for very high energies. He is one of eight professors who won a Humboldt professorship this year, the most outstanding research prize in Germany, endowed with 5 million […]
Brian Foster awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
Brian Foster awarded Alexander von Humboldt Professorship On 12 May in Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented one of eight Humboldt Professorships, the highest valued international awards for research in Germany, to Brian Foster. Beginning 1 June, Foster, the GDE Regional Director of Europe, will begin work at the research centre DESY and at […]
A strategy for the future
German particle physics community discusses recommendation for European strategy process
Germans enjoy punctuality, and Germans like to plan ahead. Though these may sound like tired clichés, the German particle physics community recently lived up to international expectations and met for a workshop to set the strategy for particle physics in Germany in the years to come. The physicists were asked by their funding agency, the […]
The German way to the forum
Many different institutes and labs in Germany are involved in the development of a time projection chamber (TPC) for the ILD detector. Some ideas are so good that you have to export them when you move from one country to the other. This is especially the case in a global project like the ILC, where […]