The linear collider community will conclude the year at the LCWS in Morioka in December. I know that travel funding is tight for many of you but it is important to have a good turnout at this workshop to show the strong continuing international interest and commitment in the construction of a linear collider as an […]
Interesting times
Harry Weerts in his Directors Corner article on 11 August described the upcoming year-end changes to the ILC programme in both the LCC organisation and the accelerator design efforts. Since that time the ILC accelerator team has been assessing the impact of the change in direction of the US programme with the emphasis switching from design […]
Changes in LCC and in the US regarding ILC
The current Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) reports to the Linear Collider Board (LCB), which in turns reports to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). At previous ICFA meetings the mandate of the current LCC was extended to the end of 2016 and at its February 2016 meeting ICFA formed a committee, consisting of the […]
Looking into the crystal ball
At its recent meeting in Japan, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) decided that it would form a small subcommittee to discuss and recommend what structures should follow the current Linear Collider Board (LCB) and Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) when their current (extended) mandates terminate at the end of this year. The committee consists […]
Physics and football
Working in particle physics can easily fill your day. But there’s always more to life than physics – football, for example. Three core members of the linear collider management team turn out to also be hardcore fans of Sunderland Association Football Club – so much so that one of them, John Osborne, founded the Sunderland Swiss […]
Ten Years and Counting…
Former GDE Director Barry Barish revisits the project he led for eight years
Many of the striking advances in particle physics during the particle collider era have resulted directly from the complementarity of hadron-hadron and electron-positron colliders. Unfortunately, it is not practical to build a complementary circular electron-positron collider for the LHC capable of reaching center-of-mass energies of about 1 TeV (tera electronvolt) because of the large amount of […]
LCC Director Lyn Evans visits IHEP
Prof. Lyn Evans, Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), visited the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) on June 9th. Accompanying him were Prof. Akira Yamamoto, the LCC Asian Regional Director, and Prof. Hitoshi Yamamoto, the LCC Associate Director for Physics and Detectors. The LCC delegation held a special symposium and participated in the […]
The path to an international ILC Lab
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is a misquotation from George Santayana (1863 – 1952). Very suitably for the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), he was a writer with an international perspective who always considered himself both Spanish and American. These words came into my mind when I received an […]
A physicist walks into a rice paddy…
The Linear Collider Collaboration management team visited the recommended site in the Kitakami mountains last week. Surrounded by local journalists, including several camera teams, they inspected the area that might one day host the International Linear Collider.
LCWS13 – a timely linear collider workshop
The international linear collider workshop LCWS13 will be hosted by the University of Tokyo from 11 to 15 November. In June 2013, the ILC TDR was completed and the new international linear collider organisation LCC has fully taken over from the GDE (Global Design Effort) and RD (Research Directorate) that coordinated the activities to produce the […]