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What's Up with the Linear Collider? The seventh in a series of Fermilab Today stories on the International Linear Collider. The entire series is available online. Who's Who in International Accelerator Organizations? | ||
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Founded by scientists in 1976, the International Committee for Future
Accelerators facilitates international collaboration in the construction and use of
accelerators for high energy physics. The 16 scientists who are members
of ICFA represent particle physics activities in different regions of the
Two regional committees, the Asian Committee for Future Accelerators and the European Committee for Future Accelerators, cooperate closely with ICFA. They strengthen the regional collaboration in accelerator-based science, coordinating the contributions of the large number of Asian and European countries with ties to high-energy laboratories. (There is no regional committee in North America.)
ICFA has created a number of panels and committees that focus on such topics
as beam dynamics and high-energy physics computing. In 2002, ICFA created
the International Linear Collider Steering Committee
to define the scientific roadmap for an electron-positron linear collider
as an international project. The 15 members of the ILCSC, many of whom are
ICFA members as well, have been charged to define the scope and primary
parameters for the machine and detector, to monitor the R&D activities,
and to make recommendations on the coordination and sharing of R&D tasks.
In turn, the ILCSC created the International Technology Recommendation Panel
(see Fermilab Today, July 14, 2004),
which will recommend either a 'cold' or 'warm' technology for the ILC before
the end of the year. To coordinate the work of regional collaborations, each
of the three regions active in linear collider activities - Asia, Europe and
the United States - has named a Linear Collider Steering Group/Committee.
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From Scientific American, August 2004 Questions That Plague Physics: A Conversation with Lawrence M. Krauss Lawrence M. Krauss speaks about unfinished business Chair of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University, Lawrence M. Krauss is famed in the research community for his prescient suggestion that a still mysterious entity called dark energy might be the key to understanding the beginnings of the universe. He is also an outspoken social critic and in February was among 60 prominent scientists who signed a letter entitled "Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking," complaining of the Bush administration's misuse of science. The public, though, might know him best as an op-ed writer and author of books with mass appeal. read more |
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How They Spent Their Summer Vacation: QuarkNet Students Experience Real Work of Fermilab Scientists | ||
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Inaugurating a new phase of the QuarkNet education program, four local high
school students spent eight weeks soldering electronic equipment, writing
code for computer programs, analyzing data from particle physics experiments,
standing shifts in a particle detector control room, attending lectures and
collaboration meetings, and experiencing the real-life environment and challenges
of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory.
"They basically did everything that a first-year graduate student researcher would do here at Fermilab," said physicist Don Lincoln of the DZero detector experiment, who coordinated activities for the four students, along with physics teacher Dan Rubino of Glenbard North (Ill.) High School, who has participated in QuarkNet for four years.
Lincoln said two students working on an expansion of the experiment's analysis
discovered something that was not correct in the original results, while working
on their own initiative. The other two students adapted DZero experimental
results into Excel, to illustrate physics principles taught in high school,
such as conservation of momentum; or to carry out analysis of actual experimental
data.
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Hours for the Business Services Sections This is a notice that the Business Services Section will shut down, Wednesday 8/4/04, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for an off-site celebration of accomplishments. Normal services such as taxi, stockroom, cashier, etc. will be unavaible during this time. Thank you for your understanding.
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