The International Linear Collider is a proposed electron-positron collider that will complement the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a proton-proton collider at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland. Inside the collider, superconducting accelerator cavities operating at temperatures near absolute zero provide the particles with an increasing amount of energy until they collide at the centre of the machine.

まったく異なる解決策だが、非常に進んだ計画段階にあるのが、国際リニアコライダー（International Linear Collider）のような電子・陽電子リニア線形衝突型加速器だ。この計画のために以前から物理学者の国際的なコンソーシアムが働いていて、いまのところ予想されるコストは67億ドルだ。(google translation)

Accelerator physicists at SLAC have started commissioning the world’s most compact photoinjector – a device that spits out electrons when hit by light.

They study tiny things…

本県の北上山地（北上高地）と脊振（せふり）山地（福岡、佐賀両県）が国内候補地となっている大型線形加速器国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）について、研究者や候補地域の関係者らは来年夏までに国内候補地を一つに絞る方向だ。(There are two ILC candidate sites in Japan: Kitakami and Sefuri. Scientists and involved parties aims to choose one candidate site by next summer.)

新センターには、ＣＥＲＮでの実験に引き続き参加する部門のほか、ＩＬＣの九州誘致を進めるため、脊振山地の地質調査やＩＬＣを中心とした学術都市計画を検討する部門を設ける。(The new center will have a department to promote the research at CERN’s experiment, and a department to study the geological survey at Sefuri mountains, one of the ILC candidate site, and to discuss about urban planning centering the ILC as a core laboratory.)

Geneva, 20 September 2012. CERN[1] Council today elected Professor Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2013. Professor Zalewska takes over from Michel Spiro who comes to the conclusion of his three-year term at the end of December.