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Final focus
These quadrupoles at the ATF2 test facility at KEK in Japan get the beam down to the required size. Image: KEK As hundreds of particle bunches pass through an accelerator, physicists need to steer them...
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Demonstrating the ILC final focus parameters
ATF-2 beamline – view looking downstream. A key feature of the ILC is that it is a single-pass machine. In contrast to a circular accelerator, where the beam goes around many times, the ILC beams pass...
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From UK News from CERN: Speaking up for CLIC
Phil Burrows is the new CLIC accelerator spokesman. Image: Jesus College, Oxford The CLIC accelerator collaboration has elected a new spokesperson. Phil Burrows of the University of Oxford succeeds...
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Of cavity performance, tiny beams and official roles: progress in a maturing...
From 12 to 16 May, the Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders (AWLC) 2014 was held at Fermilab in the US. AWLC is one of the series of regional linear collider workshops held around the world. The...
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How small can you go?
History of the minimum beam size achieved at ATF2 The Americas Workshop on Linear Collider 2014 was held at Fermilab just before the approval of the P5 report, which contains the positive message...
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Another record for ATF2
Last month, LC NewsLine reported the achievement of the world’s smallest beam size of 55 nanometres at the ATF2 facility at KEK. At two international conferences held in June and July, the next record...
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CERN-KEK offices established
CERN and KEK have a long history of collaboration. An agreement signed at KEK on 21 November puts this on even firmer ground: both labs will establish CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative...
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A year with the ILC
The Shintake monitor at ATF2. Image: KEK At this time in the calendar it is difficult to avoid the temptation to look back at the past year and ahead to the upcoming one. I have proved unable to...
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This video of support for the ILC was recorded during the latest project meeting of ATF2 which took place from 24 to 26 February 2015 at LAPP laboratory in Annecy, France ATF2 is a test facility at the...
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Linear Collider Collaboration published Progress Report for the ILC
The Linear Collider Collaboration is pleased to announced the official release of the International Linear Collider Progress Report. The ILC Progress Report is a document outlining the technical...
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