Director’s Corner 14 October 2010 Barry Barish Novosibirsk revisited: integrating former weapons scientistsLast week I wrote about the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia, the venue for the 13th CERN-ISTC Scientific Advisory Committee Seminar entitled “New Perspectives of High Energy Physics,” where I was an invited speaker on the International Linear Collider. The […]
Novosibirsk
Director’s Corner 7 October 2010 Barry Barish Novosibirsk I had the interesting experience recently of spending four days at a meeting in Novosibirsk, Russia. I was an invited speaker at the 13th CERN-ISTC SAC seminar entitled "New Perspectives of High Energy Physics." The seminar was held at the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics (BINP), a […]
Hot topics in intensely cold Russia
The baseline design for the International Linear Collider (ILC) positron source is based on multi-MeV photons that produce pairs in a metallic target. The photons are created by the main electron beam passing through a helical undulator. The conventional method, positron generation via pair production using an electron beam, which is used as the positron […]
The Russian Federation in Seven Days
Director’s Corner 6 April 2006 Brian Foster The Russian Federation in Seven Days Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, GDE Regional Director of Europe. It is widely known that the Russian Federation is home to a large number of prestigious accelerator laboratories and many highly regarded accelerator scientists. Somehow the 30 years […]