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Article: NORTHERN ILLINOIS CENTER FOR ACCELERATOR AND DETECTOR DEVELOPMENT SCIENTISTS DEVELOP DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNATIONAL LINEAR COLLIDER
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- Article date:
- November 30, 2006
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Northern Illinois University issued the following news release:
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).
"The brand new technology is extremely sensitive--it can detect single photons of light with high efficiency," said Northern Illinois University Presidential Science Adviser Gerald Blazey, who serves as co-director of NICADD.
"Among scientists in the ILC detector community, this is a substantial achievement," Blazey said. "And for the NIU physics department, the detector work complements the outstanding program in beam ...