Spain and Japan have taken an important step to strengthen their cooperation. On 13 May, a workshop called “Collaboration Opportunities on Fusion and Accelerator Technologies and Projects between Spanish and Japanese Organizations” was held at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo. This workshop was jointly hosted by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), the Spanish […]
Building trust and big machines
The Japanese town Kesen-Numa has large expertise in the fishing and port industry, but they have never hosted a major international lab. A delegation recently visited CERN to learn how these labs work, what they need and what benefit they bring to their neighbours. Their visit included a trip to the site of the CMS […]
Special Linear Collider Event during the IEEE Symposium
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 […]
Crescendo for European infrastructures
Looking back on the first year of AIDA
Proposed projects rely heavily on active R&D activities, young people willing to spend weeks in test beams, industry willing to tackle new technological challenges and infrastructures that will in the end help turn a few of the proposed projects into reality. The EU-programme AIDA (for Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors at Accelerators) combines all these […]
A cavity made in KEK’s Cavity Fabrication Facility
To realise the International Linear Collider, scientists need to address many issues. One of the most important is the primary cost driver for the ILC, the superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavity and cryomodule systems. At KEK, the team responsible for SCRF activity intends to seek cost-effective mass-production scenarios for the SCRF cavity. The ILC will have […]
Pushing technology, expanding industry
PAVAC Industries has a way with electron beams, and with the help of a boost developing superconducting radiofrequency technology, they’re taking their beams to the next level
Electron beams aren’t just for colliding. They also happen to be useful tools for welding metals and treating greenhouse gases. PAVAC Industries of Richmond, Canada is all about electron beams – manipulating them and manufacturing machines that use them. The company is currently contracted to develop superconducting radiofrequency technology (SRF) for the ILC. That assignment, […]
The multiplying effects of an accelerator economy
Niowave in Lansing, US is bringing superconducting cavities to the larger science community
On the homepage of a US-based company website is a picture that, at first glance, looks like an advertisement for a major household appliance. A yellow starburst graphic assures you that delivery time is quick. A text-boxed baseline price is presented in glowing type. And at the centre is the touted item: an ILC/TESLA-type accelerator […]
Industry meets accelerator scientists in Spain for IPAC11
This September is Spanish time for the ILC. Three weeks before the linear collider workshop in Granada, the worldwide accelerator community gathered at San Sebastián for the second International Particle Accelerator Conference. The main purpose of what is becoming the annual rendez-vous of the world’s accelerator scientists and engineers is for them to meet and […]
The fruits of industry
The Global Design Effort collaborates with industrial companies to encourage scientific innovation for ILC technology
As a global science project, the ILC draws on the resources of laboratories in the Americas, Asia and Europe. It also calls on capabilities from industrial factories and plants around the globe. The ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) has worked to encourage an open exchange of information and ideas among these diverse collaborators and industrial […]
Global Design Effort optimises industralisation models
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
As part of Technical Design Phase 2, the Global Design Effort (GDE) has been working towards more realistic and cost-effective industrialisation models for the production of superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavities and cryomodules, as these are primary cost drivers in the ILC construction estimate. The most important issue to be explored is how to distribute and […]