I spend a fair amount of time giving public lectures on particle physics and cosmology around the world. Quite often, I receive the same question from the audience, “what is this good for?” There is a wonderful movie titled Particle Fever, a documentary about the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider […]
ILC: Innovation-Led Cooperation?
Study and brochure highlight potential technological benefits
New science project in their planning stages are a bit of a hothouse for new ideas, innovative solutions and maybe even breakthroughs in technology. The ILC is right in the middle of this stage: R&D is in full swing, scientists pursue various solutions to meeting the high demands of the machine and detectors. No wonder […]
From Symmetry Magazine: Particle physics benefits: Adding it up
As a lead machinist at Argonne National Laboratory, Frank Meyer recognized the need for industry to supply complex equipment for scientific research. So in 1966 he started Meyer Tool & Manufacturing on a part-time basis in his garage. Three years later, he left Argonne to expand his machine shop into a full-time manufacturing facility. Around […]
Technological Benefits from ILC R&D
Director’s Corner 9 April 2009 Barry Barish Technological Benefits from ILC R&D We are pursuing a very ambitious R&D programme in order to develop the technologies that will be required to build the International Linear Collider. Recognising that important technological benefits are resulting from our ILC R&D programme, the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), […]
ILC industry thinks outside the box
What do the International Linear Collider and nuclear waste transmutation, cargo inspection or food and water sterilisation have in common? Technology. The same technology that the ILC will use to explore the fundamental nature of the universe may also have potential applications in other areas of science and industry. This is what a group of […]