Each end-of-year people are used to gathering together to look back on a year of progress and to making plans for the coming year. Experts are no exception, whether from China or Japan. From 7 to 8 December 2010, the IHEP-KEK 1.3-gigahertz superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) technology collaboration meeting was held at the Institute of High […]
New start, new hope
Third IHEP-KEK 1.3-GHz SRF technology collaboration meeting
From Fermilab Today: Introducing the ICPA: The right tool for the right job
Giorgio Apollinari, head of the Technical Division, wrote this week’s column. Giorgio Apollinari Developing and improving superconducting radio-frequency technology is an important goal for Fermilab. SRF technology allows us to conceive and plan for future accelerators, such as Project X, the ILC or the Muon Collider, or for energy production applications such as Accelerator Driven […]
From Fermilab Today: Fine-tuning the instruments of acceleration
Achieving resonance in a scientific collaboration is no small feat, but scientists at Fermilab, DESY and KEK have come together to do exactly that: They’ve improved the mechanism that keeps superconducting radio frequency cavities in tune. Members of Fermilab’s Technical Division and DESY staff, with financial assistance from KEK, recently built four new tuning machines […]
Important progress on IHEP superconducting cavity
A 1.3-Gigahertz low-loss type large-grain nine-cell superconducting cavity called IHEP-01 produced at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, achieved an accelerating gradient of 20 Megavolts per metre in its first vertical test at KEK on 1 July. This may not be the design gradient yet, but it marks an important progress […]
Exchanging opinions about the ILC
One day before the beginning of the biggest ever – and first international – Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC 2010, a satellite meeting was held with scientists and specialists from laboratories and industries around the world on the superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavity technology and industrialisation. GDE Project manager Akira Yamamoto chairs the industrial session The meeting […]
From Fermilab Today: ARRA funds SRF technology, U.S. industry to benefit
In August, the Department of Energy announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will provide Fermilab with $52.7 million to test and develop superconducting radio frequency cavities, a key technology for next-generation accelerators and the future of particle physics. The funds provide a significant boost to the SRF program at Fermilab, allowing the laboratory […]
Canada moves towards SCRF expertise with e-linac project
Scientists at TRIUMF laboratory in Canada are wrapping up the design of a new experiment that will give them experience in building superconducting radiofrequency cavities and position them for further collaboration on the International Linear Collider. TRIUMF researchers examine the chemical etching process for a superconducting cavity manufactured by PAVAC Industries. A conceptual sketch for […]
From CERN Courier: Viewpoint: SRF technology comes full circle
Accelerator builders should step back and re-assess decades of R&D into superconducting RF technology says Jefferson Lab’s Ganapati Rao Myneni. Nearly a half-century ago, researchers at Stanford University began investigating superconducting RF (SRF) acceleration. They would not have been surprised to learn that by 1994, SRF had come into large-scale use in Jefferson Lab’s Continuous Electron Beam […]
Progress and plans for ILC R&D at JLab
Director’s Corner 16 October 2008 Barry Barish Progress and plans for ILC R&D at JLab Jefferson Laboratory (JLab) in Newport News, Virginia, is a major DOE laboratory for Nuclear Physics. The laboratory has a pioneering 6-GeV electron accelerator that is based on superconducting radiofrequencey (RF) accelerating technology. JLab has a great deal of expertise, experience […]