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Setting up the AX-PET photon detectors. Image: CERN
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An eye on the pulse
Engineers Stephane Callier (Omage) and Remi Cornat (LLR) setting up the SiW electromagnetic calorimeter. Building a state-of-the-art particle detector requires several steps. When you’ve decided what...
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Particle flow
Particle tracks inside a detector. Image: John Marshall When particles collide, they often produce sprays of new particles called jets. Given the complexity of these particles’ interactions, measuring...
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Common ground in ILC and CLIC detector concepts
Under scrutiny in the DESY test beam with the help of the beam telescope: timepix chips. The Compact Linear Collider and International Linear Collider will accelerate particles and create collisions in...
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CALICE under new leadership
Former CALICE spokesman and current chair of the Steering Board Felix Sefkow congratulates Frank Simon on his new role. CALICE, the collaboration of detector developers working on calorimeters for the...
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Calorimeters don’t take holidays
Summer breaks don’t exist for detector prototypes. For almost three weeks in July – around the time that a new temperature record of 39.7 degrees was measured in Geneva – the team working on the...
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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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Practi-Cal
Testing, testing… calorimeters in the test beam at CERN. Better together: two technological prototypes of the high-granularity calorimeters for a future ILC detector have been tested together with...
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German teachers get a taste of ILC R&D
High-school teachers in the Hi-Grade lab. Image: DESY Even if the ILC can’t solve the remaining riddles of particle physics yet, its development already does some good. The latest example: two labs at...
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Detector experts meet in Ichinoseki
Participants pose in front of ILC support banners in the ILD meeting venue. Scientists working in large international collaborations are used to travelling the world and seeing new places. But...
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