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Media advisory: International Linear Collider to take next step

6 December 2012

Akihabara UDX Theater, the venue of the 15-December event

The Global Design Effort and ILC Research Directorate, the international planning team for the International Linear Collider (ILC), will hand over the draft of the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) to its internal oversight board ILC Steering Committee (ILCSC) in an official ceremony to be held in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan on 15 December 2012 at 14:00 h JST. This marks the first step towards the completion of the final design for the ILC project.

After several years of intensive research and development work on accelerator and detector technologies, as well as in-depth internal reviews of both the accelerator and detector reports, the TDR will be handed over to Jonathan Bagger, the chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee, at the official handover ceremony.

An external review of the TDR on the technical design for the accelerator and a detailed baseline design for the two detectors will have been carried out by the international committee of technical experts in the days just preceding the ceremony at High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Japan. A separate cost review on TDR will be done in January, and the results of these reviews will be presented to ILCSC in Vancouver in February 2013 at a joint meeting of ILCSC and the new Linear Collider Board, a new oversight committee for the Linear Collider Collaboration that will take up office at the same time.

The Linear Collider Collaboration will combine the two linear collider projects, ILC and CLIC, under one organisational roof. After this review, the final version of the TDR will be officially delivered to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) in June 2013.

Following the handover ceremony on 15 December in Akihabara, Tokyo, there will be a panel discussion on the past, present and future of the ILC from various perspectives of eminent scientists and business leaders, moderated by Hitoshi Murayama, Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU).

There will be a Q&A session for press after the panel discussion, with Barry Barish, Sakue Yamada, Jonathan Bagger and Atsuto Suzuki. This will happen at around 15:00 JST. The event and press conference will be streamed live and journalists unable to attend in person have the opportunity to ask questions via ustream. Please see details below for more information.

The Global Design Effort (GDE), ILC Research Directorate (RD), the Japanese Advanced Accelerator Association promoting Science and Technology (AAA), and Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) will jointly host this event.

Media who wish to attend or require more information on this event should contact Rika Takahashi, ILC Communicator Asia, at +81-29-879-6247 or communicators@linearcollider.org.

Event and Panel Details

Title: Handover Ceremony of the draft of the ILC Technical Design Report, including the Detailed Baseline Design for detectors

Date/Time: Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 14:00 to 16:00 JST

Location: Akihabara UDX Theater

Video streaming available at:

URL (Japanese) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ilc-jpn

URL (English) http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ilc-eng

Programme:

(1)    Handover ceremony (14:00 ~ 15:00)

  • Presentation by Barry Barish, Director, Global Design Effort
  • Presentation by Sakue Yamada, Research Director, ILC Research Directorate

(2)    Panel Discussion (15:00 ~ 16:00)

Speakers:

  • Barry Barish, Director, Global Design Effort
  • Sakue Yamada, Research Director, ILC Research Directorate
  • Jonathan Bagger, Chair, ILC Steering Committee
  • Hiroya Masuda, Chair, Japan Policy Council
  • Atsuto Suzuki, Director General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
  • Takashi Nishioka, Chair, Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA)

Moderator

  • Hitoshi Murayama, Director, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)

(3) Q&A session (16:10 ~17:00)

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