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Tracking Extraordinary Particles in the ILC
Science Today: SLAC's ATLAS Team at CERN Gears Up
SLAC Receives Award for Holiday Generosity
Thursday - February 22, 2007 |
Tracking Extraordinary Particles in the ILCWith the recent release of the Reference Design Report, the International Linear Collider (ILC) is beginning to take shape. As the design progresses, researchers around the world are concocting new ways to detect exotic particles. Here at SLAC, a group of physicists are leading the design effort for the innovative Silicon Detector (SiD), one of four proposed particle hunters for the ILC. "The ILC requires detectors unlike those of any previous experiment," said Physicist Tim Nelson, a collaborator on the SiD project. "To make a detector with extraordinary capabilities, we're trying really unconventional designs for the tracking system." Tracking systems help researchers to reconstruct exotic particles based on the showers of ordinary particles into which they decay. The SiD tracker must precisely measure the momenta of charged particles from the curvatures of their paths through a uniform magnetic field, which in turn can reveal the natures of their extraordinary parents. Read more... |
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SLAC Receives Award for Holiday GenerosityLast winter, SLAC collected 1,481 pounds of non-perishable food for the Second Harvest Food Bank. In recognition of this generosity, the Food Bank awarded the lab a Platinum Certificate of Appreciation at their Annual Awards Event, held last week at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts. Thank to you everyone who helped earn this recognition! In addition, employee donations helped to fill three vans with coats and blankets to be distributed to the Emergency Housing Consortium Shelter in Santa Clara, and put gifts into the hands of 600 children involved in the Giving Tree Campaign. Thanks to George Lee and the Linear Café staff, the lab was also able to donate food to Saint Anthony's, where they serve dinners to the under-privileged of our area. Many thanks to the volunteers who helped with all these efforts and to the SLAC population for giving so generously. Learn more about the 2006 Giving Drives here. International Science Grid This Week:
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