This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director for the Global Design Effort
The 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said that laws are like sausages – it’s better not to see them being made. The US budget, when it finally appears, eventually becomes law. With the GDE mandate and the associated R&D programme for the ILC coming to an end with the final handover of the Technical […]
As US Regional Director, Mike Harrison usually covers US High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) meetings as a way to stay abreast of developments in and the direction of the US high-energy physics programme. This time, instead of Mike, I attended the recent HEPAP meeting in Washington DC on 12 and 13 March. At this […]
Electrician Stan Kramer works at New Muon Laboratory. Electrician Stan Kramer spent the better part of a recession-hit 2009 unemployed. Then, last March, he received the call from Arlington Electric that he was needed for a newly created job at Fermilab. Fermilab hired Arlington to do electrical work at the New Muon Laboratory with funds […]
Director’s Corner 25 February 2010 Mike Harrison A trip to Washington Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Mike Harrison, GDE Americas Regional Director. Pre-amble: One of the jobs of a Regional Director is to elicit support for the project beyond the traditional high-energy physics community. In this role Mike Harrison describes a recent trip […]
In a provocative section of a talk at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, DC, yesterday, theorist Matthew Strassler from Rutgers University challenged particle theorists to not be too simple in their analyses. Most people would probably not claim that theoretical particle physics is too simple, but Strassler argued that nature is likely to be […]
Director’s Corner 11 February 2010 Barry Barish US Department of Energy ILC R&D funding request for fiscal year 2011 It is an understatement to say that the US ILC R&D funding has had its ups and downs! Two years ago in the final budget compromise for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, we effectively lost our funding […]
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 […]
–Notre Dame and Oxford University–
At the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK, researchers around the world are testing the feasibility of their accelerator techniques. Because the ILC beams are very small, very accurate and precise beam diagnostic measurements are required. Physicists from Notre Dame University, US, and Oxford University, UK, visited ATF2 in July to make tests relevant to […]
Superconducting cavity development at Fermilab recently reached a major milestone. Fermilab scientists and engineers shipped their first successfully completed and tested 3.9 GHz superconducting module to DESY on Friday, April 24. The module, which consisted of four superconducting cavities and associated infrastructure arrived safely on Tuesday, April 28. It will become part of the German […]