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ILC NewsLine Archive

17 December 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Detector activities in the new stage
  • Feature: The ILC in 2009
  • Director's Corner: Strawman Baseline 2009 Report preparations and the new ILC Cost Estimating Tool

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10 December 2009

  • Feature: From Physics Buzz: Nobu Toge: Machine Portraits
  • Around the World: In memory of Takayuki Matsui
  • Director's Corner: The ILC Project Advisory Committee considers proposed ILC baseline revisions
  • Image of the week: S1 truly global: DESY cavities arrive at KEK

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3 December 2009

  • Around the World: From KEK: Call for opinions: Japan faces severe science budget cut
  • Feature: EU projects get musical
    All about the AIDA project proposal
  • Director's Corner: "Open Sesame"
  • Image of the week: LHC sets new world record

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25 November 2009

  • Feature: From CERN: Two circulating beams bring first collisions in the LHC
  • Feature: From CERN: The LHC is back
  • Director's Corner: What drives the development of technology?
  • Image of the week: French ILC physicists visit XFEL village at CEA

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19 November 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Preparing future detector R&D at testbeams
  • Around the World: Developing new tool for hospitals and life science
  • Director's Corner: The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge
  • Image of the week: The future visits Japanese accelerator symposium

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12 November 2009

  • Around the World: From DESY inForm: Old hall – new detectors
  • Feature: Rises and falls in nanoseconds
    ATF succeeded in the fast kicker test
  • Director's Corner: Rethinking LHC–ILC connections
  • Image of the week: 13 000 visitors at DESY

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5 November 2009

  • Feature: The mysterious Universe – brought to Albuquerque
    Public lecture draws impressive crowd
  • Around the World: From Fermilab Today: SRF cryogenics system proves its 'cool' factor
  • Director's Corner: Report on the CLIC workshop

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29 October 2009

  • Around the World: News from China on ILC collaboration
  • Feature: One sheet to plot them all
    DESY database becomes standard tool for cavity research
  • Director's Corner: Accelerators everywhere – the ILC in context

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22 October 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Linear collider detector development
  • Feature: CALICE collaboration enters new phase
  • Director's Corner: ILCSC grapples with moving the Linear Collider forward
  • Image of the week: Bill Willis receives highest honour from Yale Graduate School

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15 October 2009

  • Feature: From SLAC today: People: Andrei Seryi
  • Around the World: SOI technology for next-generation sensors
  • Director's Corner: CERN prepares for LHC commissioning
  • Image of the week: RF Unit Test Facility takes (big and yellow) shape

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8 October 2009

  • Around the World: New type of thermal sensors for vertical testing of nine-cell cavities for the ILC
  • Feature: Linear developments
    New detector R&D group at CERN looks for synergies with ILC
  • Director's Corner: Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee
  • Image of the week: Impressions from Albuquerque

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1 October 2009

  • Around the World: Cryomodule surpasses ILC gradient test
    European-XFEL cryomodule using SCRF technology sets new record
  • Feature: From SLAC today: Bringing Power to the International Linear Collider
  • Director's Corner: FALC meets in Quebec City
  • Image of the week: Welcome to Albuquerque!

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24 September 2009

  • Feature: 9 mA revisited
    Machine experts run DESY’s FLASH accelerator under ILC parameters
  • Feature: ILC NewsLine Survey result
  • Director's Corner: Operating and maintaining the ILC in the year 202X
  • Image of the week: Superconductivity experts meet in Berlin

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17 September 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Validation made of the Letters of Intent
  • Feature: Progress on ILC detectors
    International Detector Advisory Group completed its report
  • Director's Corner: Linear Collider Accelerator School underway in China
  • Image of the week: From JLab: Practice makes perfect

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10 September 2009

  • Around the World: From Fermilab Today: ARRA funds SRF technology, U.S. industry to benefit
  • Feature: GRACE-ful students
    First school for GRACE tool held at KEK
  • Director's Corner: A new ILC baseline and global consensus
  • Image of the week: SCRC – superconducting roller coaster technology

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3 September 2009

  • Feature: From Cornell Chronicle: Cornell electron storage ring is test case for International Linear Collider
  • Around the World: From football field to field strengths
    Construction starts for XFEL accelerator module test facility
  • Director's Corner: Keeping up with ILC technical progress

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27 August 2009

  • Feature: International collaborators at ATF2
    –Notre Dame and Oxford University–
  • Around the World: A grand tuning voyage
    Two cavity tuning machines on their way to Fermilab
  • Director's Corner: The beauty of international collaboration
  • Image of the week: Prize for ILC poster

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20 August 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Planning for the next steps
  • Feature: Five years of cool
  • Director's Corner: Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab
  • Image of the week: Leptons, photons, photos

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13 August 2009

  • Feature: From symmetry: Helium's shrinking bubble
  • Around the World: Start your dream from the Asia Science Camp
  • Director's Corner: ALCPG09 in Albuquerque
  • Image of the week: Royal visitors

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6 August 2009

  • Around the World: Canada moves towards SCRF expertise with e-linac project
  • Feature: Canada-Japan collaboration in accelerator science
  • Director's Corner: Particle Physics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan
  • Image of the week: Relative values

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30 July 2009

  • Around the World: Cornell University workshop highlights importance of R&D for ILC damping rings
  • Feature: Survey: how are we doing with NewsLine?
  • Director's Corner: Global effort for high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities

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23 July 2009

  • Around the World: From DESY inForm: Light at the end of the magnet?
  • Around the World: Observe, explore and re-create the universe
  • Director's Corner: Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration

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16 July 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Spreading the excitement of discovery
  • Feature: A user-friendly beam telescope for the ILC – Mission: possible
  • Director's Corner: Students admitted to LC accelerator school

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9 July 2009

  • Around the World: From CERN Bulletin: The collider of the future?
  • Feature: 3-D silicon technology project draws together industry and research for ILC
  • Director's Corner: Improvements in high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities

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2 July 2009

  • Around the World: Polarimeter on the electron stretcher
  • Detector prototype proves itself in the testbeam
  • Feature: Cross-field collaboration on photon detectors
  • Director's Corner: “A picture is worth a thousand words” – (sometimes attributed to) Napoléon Bonaparte

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25 June 2009

  • Around the World: From SLAC Today: New Modulator Prototype Put to the Test
  • Feature: Key evaluations underway for particle-flow calorimetry
  • Director's Corner: The other kind of particle acceleration
  • In the News – CERN reports on progress towards LHC restart
  • In the News – The latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Europe's big lasers: the exawatt roadmap
  • In the News – China, Japan, and Korea issued a joint statement on science and technology cooperation

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18 June 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Detector activities reviewed by the PAC
  • Around the World: UC Davis spearheads interconnect technology development for SiD detector
  • Director's Corner: A step at a time
  • In the News – Stanford scientists discover a possible successor to silicon
  • In the News – Wilson Lab open house to feature accelerator and X-ray demos, and tours for the whole family
  • In the News – Large inspection

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11 June 2009

  • Around the World: From SLAC Today: Simulating a More Efficient Linear Collider
  • Feature: Spiralling under control
    Positron source R&D makes progress
  • Director's Corner: An official change of name
  • In the News – Viewpoint: Big Science, bigger outreach
  • In the News – The latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Historic deal for German science

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4 June 2009

  • Feature: “Well done, now do some more”
    Accelerator Advisory Panel publishes results from the first review
  • Around the World: Magic or physics? – Special talk show at this year's TILC
    The public lecture hosted by TILC09 in April this year featured a close-up magician. Is antimatter annihilation the greatest work of magic?
  • Director's Corner: The value of being reviewed
  • In the News – The unique universe
  • In the News – Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium
  • In the News – The Real Benefits of Particle Physics
  • In the News – Simulating a More Efficient Linear Collider

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28 May 2009

  • Feature: Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders to be held in Beijing from 7-18 September 2009
  • Around the World: New website open! – One-stop shopping on Asian accelerator information
  • Director's Corner: What's in a word?
  • In the News – The Latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Physiker auf der Spur der unbekannten Kraft
  • In the News – INFINITY
  • In the News – ILC:素粒子分野の最先端大型実験施設、誘致に本腰--県 /岩手
  • In the News – ILC誘致調査費予算化へ 奥州市長が方針

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21 May 2009

  • Research Director's Report: CLIC-ILC collaborations on detectors
  • Around the World: University of Notre Dame collaborates on muon detector development project
  • Director's Corner: Learning accelerator science
  • In the News – European scientists launch new space telescope
  • In the News – Austria to stay in particle physics lab after all
  • In the News – Ritt auf Plasmawelle soll Elektronen effizienter aufladen
  • In the News – Important step-forward towards the SuperB realization
  • In the News – La extinción de los mastodontes de la física

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14 May 2009
ILC NewsLine special issue: detectors

  • Feature: Writing the LOI is like “creating a painting”
    LOI editors are proud of their work – and glad it's over
  • Feature: Evaluating the ILC detector concepts
    “A noteworthy step in the genesis of ILC detectors,” said Michel Davier, chair of IDAG.
  • Director's Corner: Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process
  • In the News – [URGENT MESSAGE] - Preventive measure against the Influenza A(H1N1) (Swine Flu) epidemic
  • In the News – Finding antimatter in the real world
  • In the News – Elektronen surfen auf der Plasmawelle
  • In the News – Austrian participation in CERN
  • In the News – Using Crab Cavities, KEKB Breaks Luminosity World Record

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7 May 2009

  • Around the World: From Fermilab Today : Fermilab's superconducting cavity program moves forward
  • Feature: Angels and Positrons
  • Director's Corner: Garbincius joins GDE Executive Committee
  • In the News – Chu Pegs ILC Cost at $25 Billion
  • In the News – The stuff you can do with accelerators
  • In the News – Officials break ground for the world's most advanced neutrino experiment
  • In the News – Final LHC magnet goes underground
  • In the News – Lecture nights reveal the physics of Angels & Demons

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30 April 2009

  • Around the World: Prospects for linear collider calorimetry in China
  • Feature: New ILC communicator for the Americas
  • Director's Corner: New cavity production facility for future industrialisation
  • In the News – MDS Nordion and TRIUMF Collaborate to Study Development of Photo-Fission-Produced Molybdenum-99
  • In the News – The Latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Obama: 3% of GDP for R&D
  • In the News – T2K Neutrino Beamline Started Operation

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23 April 2009

  • Feature: Let me not to the marriage of three CADs...
  • Around the World: Impressions from TILC09
  • Director's Corner: FLASH – ILC-like beam tests at DESY
  • In the News – New Era of Research Begins as World's First Hard X-ray Laser Achieves "First Light"
  • In the News – SiD Reaches Design Milestone
  • In the News – Physicists propose new kind of quantum tunneling
  • In the News – Can R2 gravity explain dark matter?
  • In the News – Clear the ring for PETRA III

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16 April 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Letters of Intent were submitted
  • Around the World: ILC technology gets awarded
  • Director's Corner: Gran Sasso Laboratory survives the Italian earthquake
  • In the News – Next-Gen Atom Smashers: Smaller, Cheaper and Super Powerful
  • In the News – Is dark energy getting weaker?
  • In the News – Gran Sasso laboratory undamaged in L'Aquila earthquake
  • In the News – Inside the tangled world of string theory

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9 April 2009

  • Feature: From Symmetry Magazine: Particle physics benefits: Adding it up
  • Feature: ILC: Innovation-Led Cooperation?
    Study and brochure highlight potential technological benefits
  • Director's Corner: Technological Benefits from ILC R&D
  • In the News – Where Do Old Colliders Go to Die?
  • In the News – How Can We Peer Closer to the Beginning of the Universe?
  • In the News – Knowledge transfer: from creation to innovation
  • In the News – LHC consolidation work proceeds apace
  • In the News – Jefferson Lab starts its 12 GeV physics upgrade

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2 April 2009

  • Around the World: From SLAC Today: A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam
  • Feature: ILC bloggers join Quantum Diaries
  • Director's Corner: Neutrinos in Venice
  • In the News – Student discovers flaw in Large Hadron Collider
  • In the News – Particles attempt lab takeover
  • In the News – No Higgs particle after all?
  • In the News – New group supports SCRF technology industrialization
  • In the News – Un masque du boson de Higgs tombe
  • In the News – Will dark energy cause the end of the universe?

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26 March 2009

  • Around the World: Collaboration towards the realisation of the ILC
  • Feature: CALICE meeting in Korea
  • Director's Corner: Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers
  • In the News – Energy Secretary Chu Announces $1.2 Billion in Recovery Act Funding for Science
  • In the News – SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to Receive $68.3 Million in Recovery Act Funding
  • In the News – Fermilab to Receive $34.9 Million in Recovery Act Funding
  • In the News – Supplanting the old media?

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19 March 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Physics and detectors at TILC09
  • Feature: Life after the LOI
  • Director's Corner: Science in the Obama era
  • In the News – Editorial: Filling the void
  • In the News – Particle oddball surprises CDF physicists at Fermilab
  • In the News – SuperB moves forward
  • In the News – Fermilab experiments constrain Higgs mass
  • In the News – Launch of 'big bang' satellites delayed
  • In the News – CERN celebrates 20th anniversary of World Wide Web
  • In the News – EU needs 'brutal' science advice
  • In the News – Europe plays catch-up to Obama's science drive

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12 March 2009

  • Profile: In the beginning, there was...Susanna
    A profile of Susanna Guiducci, ILC damping ring group leader
  • Feature: Spring-scrubbing the beam pipe
    How CERN’s accelerator complex fights electron clouds
  • Director's Corner: The ILC damping rings and electron cloud mitigation
  • In the News – Precision measurement of W boson mass portends stricter limits for Higgs particle
  • In the News – Fermilab collider experiments discover rare single top quark
  • In the News – Crystals against cancer
  • In the News – The latest from the LHC
  • In the News – FLASH tests ATCA

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5 March 2009

  • Around the World: Detector developers meet in Korea
  • Feature: Mapping the future
    Theorists and experimentalists meet at CERN to discuss future colliders
  • Director's Corner: ILC R&D plan updated
  • In the News – Au plus près du big-bang
  • In the News – Portrait of a man at the beginning of time
  • In the News – The Latest from the LHC

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26 February 2009

  • Around the World: From Fermilab: Collaboration between Fermilab, Indian institutions sets stage for future accelerators
  • Feature: Past successes in superconducting RF are a good omen for the ILC
    Hasan Padamsee and Charles Reece highlight successes in the evolution of superconducting RF technology and look to ILC and future developments.
  • Director's Corner: Trains, planes and automobiles – the life of a regional director
  • In the News – Neues Prinzip der Supraleitung entdeckt
  • In the News – CERN sets course for new horizons
  • In the News – The light-pulse horizon
  • In the News – The latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Espace : Le télescope Fermi révèle une explosion géante
  • In the News – LHC Delays Give Tevatron a Shot at Higgs Boson

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19 February 2009

  • Research Director's Report: What's going on in the Physics and Experiment Board meeting
  • Feature: New ILC Communicator for Asia
  • Director's Corner: TILC09 will have some special features
  • In the News – Particle physicists fear PhD funding 'disaster'
  • In the News – Fermilab 'closing in' on the God particle
  • In the News – Race for 'God particle' heats up
  • In the News – What's in the Stimulus Bill
  • In the News – Science in the Stimulus

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12 February 2009

  • Around the World: From CERN: CERN management confirms new LHC restart schedule
  • Feature: Digging deep
    Conventional facilities crew hooks up with European XFEL experts
  • Director's Corner: Involving Spain in the ILC R&D programme
  • In the News – Cern: le redémarrage de l'accélérateur de particules LHC à nouveau reporté
  • In the News – Reunión internacional de investigadores en Física Fundamental en el Pirineo Aragonés en la cita anual que viene celebrándose en nuestro país desde hace 37 años
  • In the News – LHC now targeted for "late 2009" start-up
  • In the News – PAMELA paper dampens dark-matter claim
  • In the News – Troubled "Time Machine"
  • In the News – A talk with Mario Livio : Is mathematics the language of the universe?
  • In the News – Radio Telescope In Desert Dead Zone To Aid In Dark Energy Research
  • In the News – Protons are successfully accelerated and transported to J-PARC Hadron Experimental Hall

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5 February 2009

  • Around the World: From Jefferson Lab News: ILC treatment of JLab cavity garners exciting result
  • Feature: ECal: a piece of the jigsaw reaches a milestone
  • Director's Corner: FALC meets in Madrid
  • In the News – Five mysteries of the universe
  • In the News – Einstein's physics on violin
  • In the News – SUNDAY CONVERSATION: Physicist warns of science gap
  • In the News – Quantum Divorce: When Entanglement Doesn't Work Out
  • In the News – Physicists Set Plan in Motion to Change Publishing System

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29 January 2009

  • Around the World: Korea to build new science and business city
  • Feature: From SLAC Today: Groovy Beam Pipe Update
  • Director's Corner: ILC power
  • In the News – New grant will help UK remain at cutting edge of particle physics
  • In the News – Accelerators shine as experts gather in Genoa
  • In the News – DESY awards two building contracts for European XFEL
  • In the News – Essay: Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
  • In the News – Energy Secretary Steven Chu looks to labs for DOE’s future

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22 January 2009

  • Research Director's Report: Cautious optimism for US-university detector R&D funding
  • Feature: From KEK: New beam line for R&D of nano-meter electron beam has been started at Accelerator Test Facility
  • Director's Corner: Training the next generation of accelerator scientists
  • In the News – How do you weigh the Milky Way?
  • In the News – A Step Towards the Detection of WIMPs
  • In the News – The latest from the LHC
  • In the News – Science wins big in US economic plan
  • In the News – Aceleradores de partículas de bolsillo

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15 January 2009

  • Around the World: From symmetry breaking: Project X collaboration forms, experiment moves forward
  • Feature: From four to six quarks in a month and a half
    An interview with Toshihide Maskawa, Nobel laureate of Physics
  • Director's Corner: Plug compatibility: rationale and technical aspects addressed
  • In the News – Profile: Camille Ginsburg prepares Fermilab for the future
  • In the News – A global view
  • In the News – Belfast art set to collide with quantum physics
  • In the News – ILC accelerated by Nobel Prize
  • In the News – KEK started beam test aiming to realize ILC project
  • In the News – European boost for particle therapy

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8 January 2009

  • Feature: Large-scale international research facilities
    A paper for the National Science and Technology Summit
  • Around the World: Harmonics of acceleration
    Fermilab assembles third-harmonic cryomodule string
  • Director's Corner: A New Year
  • In the News – Desktop atom smashers could replace LHC
  • In the News – Commentary: Reasons to be jolly about 2008
  • In the News – Top ten physics stories of the year
  • In the News – Newsmaker of the year: The machine maker

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