A Director's Corner by Jenny List, new chair of the working group
Recently, Hitoshi Murayama has been appointed as chair of the next Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel in the US, and therefore stepped down from his role as chair of the Physics and Detector Working Group of the International Development Team, also known as IDT-WG3. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Hitoshi for […]
As many of you will have heard by now, the Linear Collider Collaboration was given another three-year mandate by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). It took the opportunity to streamline management a little, so from January we will run the collaboration in a smaller and slightly changed team. Let me introduce the new […]
The annual and 4th edition of the French Linear Collider Days (JCL2016) workshop happened in Paris on 23-24 March 2016 (after Lyon 2013, Saclay 2013 and Grenoble 2014). About 70 participants reinforced the dedication of the French Linear Collider Community to remain a strong partner during the next steps towards the realisation of the project. […]
The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) was established in February 2013, and the organisation of the physics and detector part started to form over the following several months with regional representatives, concept group representatives, and working groups. One important ingredient for the organisation was the physics and detector advisory panel (PDAP) that advises the Associate Director […]
On 1st May 2014, Japan’s Ministry for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) established an expert committee to investigate various issues raised by the Science Council of Japan regarding the ILC. Then, two subcommittees were created: one, the ILC particle & nuclear physics subcommittee, to investigate the physics case of the ILC, and the […]
In the charge drafted by the ILCSC nearly two years ago, the responsibility of the associate director for physics and detectors of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) was stated as follows: “He/she will coordinate the world-wide effort to develop advanced detectors that are appropriate for either accelerator technology…Initially, the Associate Director will focus on Building […]
The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) officially started at the Vancouver Linear Collider Board (LCB) meeting in February 2013, and the new organisation is slowly taking shape. I was appointed Associate Director for the Physics & Detector portion of the new structure. LCC director Lyn Evans told us that he thought the task assigned to this […]
Let me take this opportunity to acknowledge the enormous achievement of the very small GDE team, led by Barry Barish. They have produced the Technical Design Report, which has been favourably reviewed by an independent expert committee. The TDR also contains a detailed cost estimate which has also been independently reviewed and has proved to […]
Some T-shirts lose their lives in the wash, but their memories live on. At a meeting in Snowmass, US, in August 2005, Norman Graf was seen wearing a simple white t-shirt asking “got ilc?” (Not yet, Norm) And Nick Walker sported a yellow shirt that said “Summer In Snowmass – Some Are Not.”). Those who […]
Now we are making the final spurt to complete Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). Of its two volumes, the physics volume describing the physics possibilities of the ILC was drafted by an author group convened by Michael Peskin in July and is now open for reading in the community. The draft of the other volume […]