Scientists working in large international collaborations are used to travelling the world and seeing new places. But scientists travelling to Kitakami in northern Japan, the area where the ILC would likely get built if it is approved, tend to return with one prominent tale to tell: that of the support of the local public. ILC […]
Common ground in ILC and CLIC detector concepts
The Compact Linear Collider and International Linear Collider will accelerate particles and create collisions in different ways. Nonetheless, the detector concepts under development share many commonalities. CERN physicist Dominik Dannheim explains that CLIC detector plans are adaptations of the ILC detector designs with a few select modifications. “When we started several years ago, we did […]
DEPFET active pixel detectors for the linear collider
Marcel Vos reports on behalf of the collaboration
Solid-state devices for charged particle tracking proved their value in high energy physics in the most internal layers of the experiments of the Large Electron Positron Collider LEP at CERN, where they provided precise information on the production vertex of charged particles. These silicon micro-strip detectors consisted of a thin reverse-biased pn-junction segmented in narrow […]