From the evening of Monday, 15 October, the autumn beam operation at KEK’s Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) has been back in business after two months of shutdown in summer. In this operation period, we will have two ATF2 dedicated runs: a two-week run in November, and a four-week run from the end of November to […]
How Many Magnets Make a Linear Collider
Director’s Corner 22 June 2006 Barry Barish How Many Magnets Make a Linear Collider? Magnets that steer beams around a ring-shaped accelerator, that focus particle beams and that make various optical corrections are key to building such high-energy particle accelerators. But, will magnets be so important for a linear collider, a particle accelerator that is […]