Belarusian components for International Linear Collider

       For the first time ever Belarusian scientists have created a key component of acceleration sections of the International Linear Collider, the press service of the Belarusian State University reported. “No one else in the world has managed to achieve such results,” explained the BSU press service. The device is called superconducting niobium resonator and is one of the components of the International Linear Collider where the energy of electromagnetic field is transferred to charged particles, which are being accelerated. About 20,000 resonators of the kind will be required to build the linear collider and Belarus may become one of the manufacturers. Research divisions of Belarus’ three top research institutions — the Belarusian State University, the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus — were involved in implementing the project. Cooperation with the world’s leading centers that have the technology to make and test niobium resonators was established as part of the project.