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A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam

A Flight Simulator for the World's Smallest Beam

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created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Commissioning has begun at the Japan-based Accelerator Test Facility 2, a major technology test bed for future accelerators, including the proposed International Linear Collider, or ILC. During ...





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CERN boss wants to bid for linear collider

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created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

CERN’s director general Rolf-Dieter Heuer will push for the linear collider, the next big experiment in particle physics after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), to be built at the Geneva lab. Heuer made his call to situate ...


Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

Silicon Detector Validated, Moves Forward

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created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two of the three detector design concepts for the proposed next linear collider have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group, and their conclusions endorsed by the International ...


Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in one piece

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created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.


Iowa State physicist leads team designing detector for international particle collider

Iowa State physicist leads team designing detector for international particle collider

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created Apr 13, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

John Hauptman stood before an international gathering of particle physicists and announced he had another idea. One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he was sure would work.


Viewing the Future: ILC Simulations

Viewing the Future: ILC Simulations

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created Jan 31, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Even though it will still be several years before the International Linear Collider (ILC) comes online, scientists have already conducted millions of collision experiments, using detectors that have not been ...


A Positive Spin

A Positive Spin

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created Feb 22, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Beams with polarized particles greatly boost the physics output of high energy physics colliders. While it has been straightforward to make polarized electron beams, polarizing positrons is more difficult, ...


NICADD scientists develop detector technology for International Linear Collider

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created Dec 01, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists at the Northern Illinois Center for Accelerator and Detector Development (NICADD) are celebrating the successful run of a prototype sub-detector for the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC).


ILC Physics: The Analysis Has Already Begun

ILC Physics: The Analysis Has Already Begun

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created Feb 12, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

For the proposed International Linear Collider, physicists are trying to both design the most precise calorimeter ever and still be able to afford it. A calorimeter measures the energy of particles in a detector, ...


Fermilab's future: to be determined

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created Aug 23, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

The University of Chicago wants to become administrator of Fermilab -- the home of the Tevatron, the world's most powerful atomic particle accelerator.


Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

Superstring theory useful for experimental physics

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (26) | comments 9

Superstring theory aims to explain the laws of physics from extremely small strings in various states. Theoretical superstring theory is therefore normally not considered to be particularly relevant for practical ...



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