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Back in the beam
After nearly a year of campaign and some 10 weeks of data taking in various beams at CERN and at DESY, the detector layers, absorbers, support structures and electronics of several calorimeter...
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Size-0 module
Probably the most advanced ultra-thin pixel sensors ever: DEPFET. Developed for the ILD detector’s vertex subdetector, they will be used in the Belle II detector – an extreme example of fast-forward...
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Higgs found at DESY
The German research centre DESY opened its doors to the public on 7 November, a day now known as DESY DAY. More than 18000 visitors came to see real accelerators, braving long queues and Hamburg...
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High-precision vertexing: from concept to reality
2015: The first fully functional Belle II pixel module seen from the front and back side. The reflection shows the thin sensitive area with the perforated support frame. Back in the early days of the...
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Trailguides in difficult terrain: the Physics and Detector Advisory Panel (PDAP)
Paul Grannis, chair of the PDAP The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) was established in February 2013, and the organisation of the physics and detector part started to form over the following...
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CLIC experts meet at CERN
Sometimes even linear-collider experts make semi circles, especially when you have to squeeze more than 200 participants into one picture (and it’s raining). The CLIC workshop was held at CERN from 18...
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Driving cooperation projects forward
Meetings during cherry blossom time means coffee breaks are spent outside more often. On 4 and 5 April last week, during the peak of the cherry blossoms in Japan, I attended the 38th US-Japan Joint...
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Cool sensors: new silicon detectors have their fridges built in
The micro-channels etched into the primary handle wafer before sealing the circuit with the second sensor wafer. Image: L. Andricek, MPG-HLL, Munich. Riding the wave of progress in semi-conductor...
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[See image gallery at newsline.linearcollider.org] You cannot miss that there was a big linear collider meeting last week: the Director’s Corner gives a summary of results and the Feature highlights a...
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The new ILD structure
Artist’s impression of the ILD detector. The International Large Detector (ILD) is one of two detector concepts which are under study for the International Linear Collider. ILD started about ten years...
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Bump or no bump
Before the official opening and the first plenary talks a movie about science and technology in Chicago, the Windy City, was shown to the audience. Photo by ICHEP Press. From 3rd August to 10th August...
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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...
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Powering 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...
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SiD 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...
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Calorimeter 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...
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Mark 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...
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New 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...
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Getting 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...
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Laboratories 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...
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We 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...
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