The 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, together with the Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors was held in at the Disneyland Hotel (Anaheim California), from 29 October to 3 November. A feature of this year’s symposium was a “Special Linear Collider Event.” The […]
LCWS12 brings together CLIC and ILC communities
The third joint ILC and CLIC Study Workshop was held at the University of Texas, Arlington from 22 to 26 October 2012. This interesting meeting brought together a convergence between the exciting new LHC results on the discovery of a Higgs-like particle, the nearing completion of the ILC Technical Design Report and Detector Baseline Design […]
Accelerating news
The third issue of the newsletter Accelerating News brings summaries of project plans, new ideas and progress on EU-funded projects. From the editors: This summer saw CERN announce to a worldwide audience the discovery of a Higgs-like boson, so this issue takes a look at the machine behind the discovery, the LHC, as well as […]
Getting it all straight
Linear collider detector experts get it straight – a vision of the XFEL tunnel that is. CLIC detector engineers from CERN visited DESY last week to discuss detector challenges such as earthquake stability, alignment, assembly planning and the construction of the detector’s magnet yoke with their colleagues from the ILC’s ILD detector. They also visited […]
I found the Higgs!
On 2 September, KEK in Japan held a laboratory open house. About 4600 people visited KEK’s Tsukuba campus, one-and-a-half times as many as last year. Presumably one of the reasons for the pushed-up number of visitors was the discovery of Higgs-like particle at CERN. At the ILC exhibit, particle badges exclusively designed for the open […]
Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Strategic planning has become central to organising and prioritising the worldwide programme in particle physics. In Europe, the process of developing an update to the “European Strategy for Particle Physics” is under way, while in Japan, KEK is updating their roadmap and in the US, the Snowmass workshop on the future of the US programme […]
Physics thrives in South Korea
Many of us who are involved in ILC design efforts were in South Korea for the KILC12 workshop in May in Daegu. Wearing a different hat as past president of the American Physical Society, I was also invited to participate in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean Physical Society in Daejean. That […]
Linear Collider Accelerator School
Today, I am pleased to announce that the Seventh International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders will be held from 27 November to 8 December 2012 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Indore, India. These Linear Collider accelerator schools have been helping fill the need to provide training for young scientists interested in pursuing careers in […]
Make no assumptions
A linear collider would complete the picture
Collisions in the LHC are like fireworks. At energies no other particle collider has ever reached, protons smash into protons and produce such exciting particles as the Higgs boson. The catch: many, many things go on at these collisions, and filtering out the interesting ones is possible, but hard. What is more, LHC physicists can […]
The Higgs and the ILC
The Higgs boson is being eagerly sought by particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN because it would explain how elementary particles get their mass, a process called spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. The discovery of a new phenomenon, maybe the Higgs boson, at the LHC at around 125 GeV could validate this concept, […]