Recently the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) Directorate visited the proposed location of the International Linear Collider in the Kitakami mountains located in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, north of Sendai city, Japan. LCC members have visited the candidate site several times already, and the purpose of this visit was to evaluate the conditions of transportation of […]
The two detector concepts for the ILC
Since the inception of the ILC design effort, we have been developing the concepts for detectors to do the science as an integral part of our work. The interactions between the accelerator and the detectors are complex and demanding. For that reason, we have a group of accelerator and detector experts working together on machine-detector […]
If the particles won’t come to the detector…
Experts on detector, machine-detector interface and civil engineering agree on detector hall design
Sometimes big things have to move in the way of small things to find exciting things. The ILC detectors, for example. True to the scientific principle of reproducibility of results, two detectors, ILD and SiD, will one day record what happens when electrons and positrons collide so that one can verify (or not) what the […]
Getting the interaction point right
Like the rest of society, the ILC community is split into two categories: the early risers and the night owls. Workshop organiser Andrei Seryi considers himself a night owl. Nevertheless he is up at 5 and in the lab at 6 am many days per week these weeks, holding phone meetings with the rest of […]