More than a decade before becoming Director of the newly forming Global Design Effort (GDE) for the ILC in 2005, I took on the task of directing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project. Like the ILC, LIGO was an incredibly challenging project with potentially a fantastic scientific payoff. Of course, we had our critics […]
Study on technical feasibility
Since 2014, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been conducting studies to gather information to decide whether Japan is interested in hosting the ILC. The summary report of the ILC Advisory Panel set up by MEXT for this purpose was outlined in the last edition of NewsLine. In addition […]
Register now for LC13 Workshop
The LC13 Wokshop: “Exploring QCD from the infrared regime to heavy flavour scales at B-factories, the LHC and a Linear Collider” will take place in Trento, Italy from 16 to 20 September 2013. LC13 agenda and registration pages are now online. Registration will end on 30 August 2013. For more information, contact Giulia Pancheri.
And the winner is…Italy!
Italy takes top honours among strong competition in the 2012 Global Particle Physics Photowalk. In September 2012, hundreds of amateur and professional photographers had the rare opportunity to explore and photograph accelerators and detectors at particle physics laboratories around the world. The photograph of Nino Bruno, a building contractor in L’Aquila, picturing a tunnel connecting the […]
FALC discusses future programmes in particle physics
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), an informal committee of particle physics funding agency representatives, held their eighteenth meeting at SLAC on 22 January 2010. I previously reported on an interesting exchange meeting between the Global Design Effort Executive Committee and FALC that took advantage of the fact that their meeting immediately followed our […]
Investing in particle physics
Happy New Year! This is my first column of 2011 and I am very pleased to begin the year by reporting on the significant new investment in particle physics by the Italian government. The Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research has announced the funding of the proposed €400-million Super B project of the Italian […]
Superconducting cavities could help reducing nuclear waste radio-toxicity
Accelerator-driven system cavity prototype embedded in its cryomodule. Image: Perrine Royole-Degieux. The European MYRRHA accelerator reference scheme. Image: Jean-Luc Biarrotte. What do the ILC and environmental protection have in common? The answer is: superconducting cavities. The European MYRRHA is an experimental facility aimed to demonstrate the technical feasibility of nuclear waste transmutation in an accelerator-driven […]
Gran Sasso National Laboratory survives the Italian earthquake
Director’s Corner 16 April 2009 Barry Barish Gran Sasso National Laboratory survives the Italian earthquake Last week a major earthquake struck Italy about 10 kilometres from the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Gran Sasso National Laboratory). The inhabitants of the city of L’Aquila nearby the laboratory suffered numerous injuries and loss of lives, as well […]
In the beginning, there was… Susanna
A profile of Susanna Guiducci, ILC damping ring group leader
Susanna Guiducci has her head in the clouds – electron clouds, that is. (Sometimes she sits in clouds that gather around the Frascati hills south of Rome where she is based at the INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati or LNF, but that is not really relevant to this story – just very picturesque.) As new […]
FALC meeting in Rome
Director’s Corner 26 July 2007 Barry Barish FALC meeting in Rome One of our most important and challenging goals for the ILC will be to develop government agreements that will underlie a true international governance for the ILC. We are a long way from achieving that goal, and I anticipate that will be done as […]