New Products
Acqiris had unveiled three new 10-bit digitizers with single-channel sampling of up to 8 gigasamples per second (Gs/s). The DC282, DC353 and DC222 PXI/CompactPCI digitzers offer a choice of front-end input. Synchronous four-channel sampling up to 2 Gs/s, or interleaved dual- and single-channel sampling of up to 4 and 8 Gs/s respectively are available.
For further information tel. +41 22 884 3390, e-mail info@acqiris.com or see www.acqiris.com.
FIZ Karlsruhe, the European partner of science and technology online service STN International, has added EPFULL (the European Patents Full Text database) to its comprehensive portfolio of patent databases. This includes the full text of European patent applications and granted European patents.
For further information tel. +49 7247 808 555, e-mail helpdesk@fiz-karlsruhe.de or see www.stn-international.de.
ISEG Spezialelektronik GmbH has added an eight-/sixteen-channel HV module to its HV multichannel module family, controlled by the CAN bus. The module has an output voltage range up to 4 kV, and offers the functionality necessary for control in large detector systems for particle physics.
For further information contact Ludwig Christians on tel. +49 351 26 996 0, e-mail sales@iseg-hv.de or see www.iseg-hv.de.
LEDtronics has announced its series B618/619 single-contact and series DB618/619 double-contact bayonet-based LED lamps for direct replacement of incandescent bulbs. Two light-emitting angles are offered as standard, in a variety of colours and infrared wavelengths.
For further details contact Jordon Papanier on tel. +1 310 534 1505 extension 120, e-mail jpapanier@ledtronics.com or see www.ledtronics.com.
Westcode Semiconductors has introduced a 100 mm thyristor. Manufactured on a single silicon wafer measuring 100 mm in diameter, the new 5.2 kV device features improved turn-on characteristics and di/dt capability.
For further information tel. +44 1249 444524, e-mail WSL.sales@westcode.com or see the data sheet at www.westcode.com.
NNN05, the latest conference in the series on the Next Generation of Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors, will take place on 7-9 April at Aussois, Savoie, France, near the Modane Underground Laboratory by the Frejus Tunnel. The topics covered will include proton decay, supernovae neutrinos, high-intensity neutrino beams, atmospheric neutrinos, solar neutrinos, large-detector R&D, and engineering for very large excavations. For further details see http://nnn05.in2p3.fr/.
A Workshop on Positron Sources for the International Linear Collider will be held at Daresbury Laboratory, UK, on 11-13 April. The workshop will discuss all the options under consideration for a positron source for the ILC, assess the outstanding R&D issues that will need to be addressed for each of them to become viable, and consider the best ways to do this. The workshop will also consider how the final selection and design of the ILC positron source should be made. For further details, including registration, see www.astec.ac.uk .
QCD 05, the 12th Montpellier International Conference on Quantum Chromodynamics, is to be held on 4-9 July in Montpellier, France. The meeting, which traditionally involves equal mixtures of experimentalists and theorists, and of young and senior physicists, will cover different aspects of QCD - perturbative, non-perturbative and the interface with other fields. For further information see http://w3.lpm.univ-montp2.fr/~qcd/qcd.html.
The 12th Lomonosov Conference on Elementary Particle Physics will take place at Moscow State University on 25-31 August. The conferences in this series are held in each odd year and bring together about 250 theorists and experimentalists from different countries to review the present status and future prospects in elementary particle physics. The programme will include electroweak theory, tests of the Standard Model and beyond, developments in quantum chromodynamics (perturbative and non-perturbative effects), heavy-quark physics, neutrino physics, astroparticle physics, gravitation and cosmology, and physics at future accelerators. For registration and further details see www.icas.ru/english/12lomcon.htmwww.icas.ru/english/12lomcon.htm.
The 2005 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference and Symposium on Nuclear Power Systems will take place at Wyndham El Conquistador Resort, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 23-29 October. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 2 May. For further information see www.nss-mic.org/2005/nss2005.html .
• Apologies to Daniel Schaffer who wrote the article "ICTP at 40" (CERN Courier November 2004 p30) for the incorrect spelling of his name in the French edition.
• It should be noted that in figure 1 in the article on deep inelastic scattering at Jefferson Lab (CERN Courier December 2005 p23), the best prediction (red curve) is calculated using polarized parton densities extracted from a perturbative QCD fit of the previous world data without the hadron helicity conservation constraint.
• In the report on the ICHEP '04 conference (CERN Courier January/February 2005) the value given for Δm212 for solar neutrinos at the top of p39 should be (8.3 + 0.6 - 0.5) x 10-5 eV2. Also the correct conference Web address (p40) is http://ichep04.ihep.ac.cn/ .
CERN hikers at Kilimanjaro
Four hikers from CERN pose with the organization's 50th anniversary flag on their way back from the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5895 m, the roof of Africa - undoubtedly the highest place to figure in the celebrations last year.