The International Development Team (IDT) has completed the Pre-lab proposal, a major milestone, and is working towards the final goal of realizing the Pre-lab, says Tatsuya Nakada, Chair of the Executive Board in the ILC International Development Team. The International Committee for Future Accelerators ICFA should discuss in their upcoming March meeting what the future of the IDT should be, taking a global strategy for a future Higgs factory into account, he suggests.
Snowmass is rebooting
The Snowmass/P5 process is starting up again in the United States. Now is the time to participate if you are not already involved: attend Snowmass working group meetings, mark the 2022 Community Summer Study in your calendar, educate yourself, and make your own views known. Snowmass and P5, which stands for Particle Physics Project Prioritization […]
Unite behind the ILC now
Artist’s impression of the ILC. (Image: Rey.Hori) There is no United States of Asia, nor an AU (an Asian version of the EU), nor is there any likelihood of such a union. However, Asian countries are highly engaged internationally and Asian scientists continue to be at the forefront of international science. There is no prospect […]
ILC Preparatory Laboratory proposal released
The ILC International Development Team (IDT) was established by the International Committee for Future Accelerator (ICFA) in August 2020, to prepare the ILC Preparatory Laboratory (Pre-lab) that would complete the technical development and engineering preparation for the International Linear Collider project to be ready for construction. During the same period, governmental authorities of interested nations […]
LCWS2021- the community focuses on an ILC Pre-Lab as the next step
The 2021 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2021), arranged by Europe as an online conference with more than 900 registered participants, took place from 15 to 18 March. As earlier conferences in this series it was primarily devoted to the physics, detector, and accelerator studies for the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) and the International […]
ILC Pre-Lab preparation on the accelerator
The International Development Team (IDT) was established in August 2020, and its Working Group 2 has been conducting preparatory accelerator work for the ILC Pre-Lab. Working Group 2 currently has about 40 members. In the Pre-Lab, the following accelerator-related tasks are expected to be performed: (1) Technical preparations. (2) Final technical design and documentation. (3) […]
Strengthening support for the realisation of the ILC
The Japan High Energy Physics Committee, representing the Japan Association of High Energy Physicists (JAHEP), recently established the ILC Steering Panel to “lead the high energy physics community in Japan to advance the ILC project towards timely realization.” This month the panel produced a most interesting report with a long title, Recent Progress Towards the […]
Promising reports from Japan
The Japan High Energy Physics Committee, representing the Japan Association of High Energy Physicists (JAHEP), recently established the ILC Steering Panel to “lead the high energy physics community in Japan to advance the ILC project towards timely realization”. This month the panel produced a most interesting report with a rather long title: “Recent Progress Towards […]
ILC++: an opportunity for all kinds of experiments
Hitoshi Murayama asks you and the wider community to propose the experiment you’ve always dreamt of doing. There is international consensus that an electron-positron Higgs factory should be the highest-priority next collider, and the International Linear Collider is the most mature and time-ready Higgs factory. But the ILC can and should be much more than […]
A team effort for a new collider
After seven years of work, the Linear Collider Board (LCB) and Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), which were established by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) completed their term in June 2020. Taking into account the recent increase of political support in Japan for the ILC, ICFA concluded that the ILC project should take a […]