From Symmetry Magazine:
Particle physics benefits: Adding it up
Stories abound about how particle physics
benefits education, the economy, and society as a whole. Quantifying
those benefits would help particle physics better demonstrate its value
to the country.
The semiconductor industry relies on accelerator technology to implant
ions in silicon chips, making them more effective in consumer
electronic products, such as computers, cell phones, and MP3 players.
Photo: Reidar Hahn, Fermilab |
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.
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-- Elizabeth Clements, Fermilab
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4 April - Tony Hartin
Physics and Mathematics
Physics I enjoyed because it was mysterious, it was about the world and
it involved maths...
3 April - Frank Simon
Sun shines at the TeraScale
Particle physicists, including myself, have high hopes that something
new, maybe even unexpected, turns up at this new energy scale, which
will show us how physics looks like beyond our current understanding.
1 April - Tony Hartin
Kaos (theory) on Wall Street
Is it really true that lapsed physicists who work in financial
institutions applying physics to stock market modelling have caused the
current world economic turmoil?
31 March - Frank Simon
An Ambush... And some Thoughts about the ILC
Working together across continents and across different cultures and
time zones is thus part of the everyday live of particle physicists,
something I don’t want to miss.
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Upcoming
meetings, conferences, workshops
Joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and GDE
Meeting on International Linear Collider
(TILC09)
Tsukuba, Japan
17-21 April 2009
Particle
Accelerator Conference 2009 (PAC09)
Vancouver, Canada
4-8 May 2009
11th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors
Wildbad Kreuth Conference Center, Bavaria, Germany
7-11 June 2009
ILC-CLIC
LET Beam Dynamics Workshop at CERN
CERN, Switzerland
23-25 June 2009
Upcoming schools
Terascale Monte Carlo school 2009
DESY Hamburg, Germany
20-24 April 2009
School on Calorimetry at the International Linear
Collider
China Center of Advanced Science and Technology, Beijing, China
22-26 April 2009
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ILC: Innovation-Led
Cooperation?
Study and brochure highlight potential
technological benefits
The many different systems and parts of the ILC are likely to produce
technologies beyond fundamental science. |
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 then that people are
already thinking of ways to transfer the technologies developed for the
different areas of the ILC to other projects or disciplines: medicine,
biology, drug research, computing, environment and many others.
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-- Barbara Warmbein
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From Discover Magazine
4 April 2009
Where Do Old Colliders Go to Die?
With the LHC’s ascendancy also comes a seismic shift in the pecking
order of particle physics as once-great colliders suddenly become
also-rans
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From Scientific American -60-Second
Science
4 April 2009
How Can We Peer Closer to the Beginning
of the Universe?
"Within Einstein’s theory of general relativity, the big bang is a
singularity—we can’t go beyond that singularity."
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From Cern Courier
April 2009
Knowledge transfer: from creation to
innovation
A study of five LHC experiments – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and TOTEM –
provides an insight into how knowledge is generated and transferred as
a result of the collaborative nature of scientific and technological
processes.
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From Cern Courier
April 2009
LHC consolidation work proceeds apace
The consolidation campaign for the LHC, which aims to ensure a safe
final commissioning and reliable running of the collider is now well
under way.
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From Cern Courier
April 2009
Jefferson Lab starts its 12 GeV physics
upgrade
The resulting 12 GeV facility – with upgraded experimental halls A, B
and C and a new Hall D – will provide new experimental opportunities
for Jefferson Lab's 1200- member international nuclear-physics user
community.
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Technological Benefits
from ILC R&D
Quantum Beam Project at KEK will use ILC superconducting RF technology
to develop a compact 25 MV SC accelerator with beam current (9mA) and
pulse length (1ms) similar to the ILC for medical and pharmaceutical
applications |
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), a group composed of representatives of national
science funding agencies worldwide, commissioned a study. The aim was
to explore the potential wider benefits of ILC technological
developments to industry, the larger scientific community and society
at large. The have produced a report, "Technology
Benefits deriving from the International Linear Collider,"
along with a new companion brochure, "Gateway to
Technology," being released with this issue of ILC NewsLine,
provides informative summaries of some broader benefits to society
resulting from our work.
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-- Barry Barish
Director's
Corner Archive
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Have you transferred?
Do you have an example of technology transfer that is directly linked
with work done on the ILC? Then please let the communicators
know about it!
4th POSIPOL Worshop
The fourth edition of POSIPOL workshop series will take place this year
from 23 to 26 June at IPNL, Lyon in France. The workshop addresses the
progress realised in the generation of polarised positron sources
dedicated to the future electron-positron colliders (ILC, CLIC, Super
B). New methods, like those using channelling radiation in oriented
crystals, being of interest for unpolarised sources, will also be
discussed. The workshop is open to experts in particule and accelerator
Physics concerned by the research and development on future positron
sources.
More information at: posipol2009.in2p3.fr
arXiv preprints
0904.0166
Grid porting of Bhabha scattering code through a master-worker scheme
0904.0122
Polarimeters and Energy Spectrometers for the ILC Beam Delivery System
EUROTeV Reports
2008-070
EUROTeV WBCM final report
2008-071
EUROTeV PBPM final report
2008-072
A Prototype S-Band Cavity BPM System for the ILC Energy Spectrometer
2008-073
ILC Crab Cavity Phase Control System Development and Synchronisation
Testing in a Vertical Cryostat Facility
2008-074
BDS Deliverable 3: Prototype Intra-Train Feedback Stabilisation and
Scanning System
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