SLAC’s YouTube channel has more on klystrons, and of course the legendary klystron gallery. In a video about SLAC’s Vacuum Microwave Device Department (VMDD), introduces itself as those people who build the devices that make SLAC’s particle accelerators go: klystrons. These devices generate intense waves of microwave energy that rocket subatomic particles up to nearly […]
SLAC celebrates 50 years
SLAC has had a remarkable first 50 years, which were celebrated in a special event this past month. Although the theme of this event focused on the next 50 years, the achievements of the past inform the future plans and prospects. The physics achievements of SLAC were duly noted at the event by the American […]
Announcement
SiD Detector Concept Workshop at SLAC The SiD Detector Concept for the ILC will hold its next workshop at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 21-23 August 2012. The main purpose of the workshop will be to review the first draft of the SiD Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) due to be completed by December 2012. It will […]
Fly down SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source
SLAC’s new time-lapse videos, ranging from 13 to 72 seconds in length, show various sped-up scenes around the lab: clouds rolling above the klystron gallery, scientists keeping busy in the Main Control Center, and, shown here, a zipping tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). Fly from one end of LCLS to the other […]
SLAC P2 Marx ramps up reliability
Last month scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, US, ran tests on their latest power generator prototype. It met ILC specifications, delivering 140 amps of current at 120 kilovolts. But the real test, the test of endurance, is still thousands of hours of run time away. Researchers are developing the SLAC P2 Marx modulator, the […]
From SLAC Today: Will the Real Higgs Boson Please Stand Up?
SLAC scientists recover their systems at ATF
KEK’s accelerator test facility, ATF, has many components installed on its beamline, many of which come from other laboratories around the world. From 21 May to 6 June, two scientists from the US laboratory SLAC, Janice Nelson and Glen White, came to ATF to check and recover systems that they are responsible for: the cavity […]
A conversation about our future
The major activity for the Global Design Effort in January was centred on the second Baseline Assessment Workshop held at SLAC from 18 to 21 January. Nick Walker reported on the meeting in this column last week, and I will report on the proposed change actions as soon as they occur. But in addition, by […]
Clustering klystrons to pool power
An elegant powering scheme accommodates the ILC’s new one-tunnel design.
Though it doesn’t sound like a way to tidy up, the alliteratively named klystron cluster could be the mechanism that helps streamline the large-scale design of the ILC. Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US are currently developing the klystron cluster scheme, a new kind of power-delivery system for radiofrequency cavities that […]
Common goals
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
As a guest columnist for the Director’s Corner, it is my turn to supply this article approximately once every eleven months. Looking back I see that my last column was just before the LCWS 10 workshop held in Beijing. Interestingly enough, I now find myself on the tail end of another GDE workshop, the recent […]