See you, summer students
Summer students Torben and Manuel adjust the setup of the beam telescope. Image: DESY, Nina Laskowski Summer is drawing to a close, and with it ends another season that often turns lab life on its head...
View ArticlePowering detector developments
Funding global endeavours like future particle detectors is rather complicated, with hundreds of institutes from around the world involved in the construction and operation. For a large particle...
View ArticleSiD optimisation group moves towards new detector model after PNNL meeting
Participants of the 2016 SiD optimisation workshop at PNNL. With LCWS in Morioka just over eight weeks away, and several new students from the University of Oregon, University of California at Santa...
View ArticleCalorimeter under telescope scrutiny
There’s a cable in my sandwich: calorimeter experts recently tested layers of hadronic calorimeter with the DESY beam telescope. Image: Adrian Irles, DESY/LAL In the last years, the various prototypes...
View ArticleMark Thomson to lead STFC
Mark Thomson. Image: STFC Universities and Science Minister Sam Gyimah has today announced that Professor Mark Thomson has been selected to be Executive Chair of the Science and Technology Facilities...
View ArticleNew CALICE calorimeter sees beam
The team preparing for one of the largest test beam runs in recent years. Particle physics will always need calorimeters, so particle physicists are always trying to optimise, tweak and update their...
View ArticleGetting lots of heads round the test beam data
E-JADE AHCAL Tokyo analysis workshop participants. Image: U of Tokyo Workshops don’t get much more intense than this. A group of students and experts from the CALICE Collaboration recently spent three...
View ArticleLaboratories and industry in tune for particle physics detector R&D in Europe
This 130-nm processed silicon wafer was produced during the AIDA-2020 project (at TSMC Foundry). These electronics will be used in the readout system of future detectors developed in the framework of...
View ArticleWe need to talk: ILD checks performance at other Higgs factory proposals than...
One thing is pretty certain: the next big machine in particle physics is most likely going to be an electron-positron “Higgs factory” collider. What is not so certain is which of the different...
View ArticleNew ILC videos released
APS TV paid us a visit in early 2023 to get the latest news on the status of the ILC. This video was shown at the American Physics Society Meeting in March. Two types of videos were made this time: a...
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