23 August 2013 Richard Ruiz The International Linear Collider: More than Just a Higgs Factory
ILC candidate site in Japan announced
The ILC site evaluation committee of Japan announced the result of the assessment on the two candidate sites in Japan in a press conference held at the University of Tokyo on 23 August 2013. As a location, they recommended the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. The search for an appropriate candidate site […]
Japanese candidate site for ILC will be announced on 23 August
The site evaluation committee of Japan, set up under the Japan ILC Strategy Council, will hold a press conference on 23 August 2013, at 9:30 a.m. Japan Standard Time (2.30 a.m. Central Europe and 7:30 p.m. Chicago) to announce the site selected as candidate site for the ILC. The ILC Strategy Council is an organisation established […]
How to make the ILC truly international
In order for an international project such as the ILC to succeed, it is not enough to be able to construct the accelerator itself. It is also critical that the site is geologically sound and that the living conditions of the staff and their families are agreeable. There are currently two candidate sites for the […]
Which way to the ILC, please?
Drivers stuck in a traffic jam in Ichinoseki city are more likely to wonder about the mysteries of the Universe than about the latest Hollywood movie – at least if they take in the billboards at the side of the road. Japan’s Iwate prefecture in the Tohoku region in the north of the country boasts a […]
A potential US site for the ILC
One of the largest challenges in designing the ILC is maintaining the ability to site the facility in different countries with candidate sites that have very different characteristics. Our approach to taking this into account for the reference design was to develop a single baseline design having site requirements that could be satisfied by most […]
The vision to invite the ILC laid out
On 10 July, governors, industrial leaders, and local officials of Japan’s northeastern area got together to attend a general meeting of the Tohoku Advanced Science and Technology Study Group. In the northeastern part of Japan, or Tohoku, activities towards inviting the ILC to the area has been intensified ever since the ILC was positioned as […]
Baseline Technical Review 4 – conventional and unconventional facilities
The fourth Baseline Technical Review, held at CERN on 22 and 23 March, focused on conventional facilities and siting. All significant changes to the 2007 Reference Design Report (RDR) baseline were reviewed and evaluated for impacts on performance, cost and related systems. This was the last of the formal reviews of the Technical Design Report […]
A visit to the two candidate Japanese ILC sites
A common question I am often asked is where the ILC will be sited. That is obviously a very important question, but we don’t have an answer yet. We will complete the Technical Design Report (TDR) within the next year and the Large Hadron Collider will, we believe, produce physics results that can both motivate […]
ILC goes one step further
Today's special issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director
On Thursday, 15 December, a symposium was held in Tokyo. This is only one event of a frequently held symposium series, but this time it drew much attention from Japanese media because Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, gave a speech there. This symposium was hosted by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science […]