An evaluation committee is expected to recommend a single candidate location to the national government in August.

The moment marked the end of a 50-year hunt. But although the boson has been found, there is still plenty we do not know about the celebrated particle. Here are the most interesting unknowns that surround the Higgs boson.

Mit seiner Geburt machte es die Physiker-Welt fast vollkommen. Sie lieben es, auch wenn es oft nicht einfach ist. Eine Geburtstagsrede an das Higgs-Teilchen.

Winzige Teilchen, riesige Maschinen, um sie zu entdecken – und die Frage, warum das Universum überhaupt existiert: Teilchenphysik fasziniert.

Récemment, une rumeur a suggéré qu’un second boson pointe le bout de son nez, mais il semble qu’il n’en soit rien.(…) Un an après la découverte du boson de Higgs, des signes d’une nouvelle physique, telle que celle impliquée dans le modèle unitaire d’Alain Connes, se font toujours attendre.

「国際リニアコライダー」（ＩＬＣ）を脊振山地（福岡、佐賀両県）に誘致しようと、両県の若手経営者らが３日、自民党本部（東京）を訪れ、超党派組織「ＩＬＣ建設推進議員連盟」の河村建夫会長（衆院議員）に１７万４４２３人分の署名を提出した。(The young business owners in Fukuoka and Saga prefectures visited Takeo Kawamura, Chair of the Diet member’s federation for the ILC, with more than 174 thousands signatures collected for inviting the ILC to Sefuri area)

The National Science Foundation-funded project is called Cornell Electron Storage Ring Test Accelerator (CesrTA). Principal investigator David Rubin, professor of physics, has led the effort to leverage the uniquely flexible design of Cornell’s synchrotron to turn it into a prototype ILC damping ring.

How much money would you be willing to spend to find out if supersymmetry – SUSY – is real or not?

「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」を日本が中心となり建設する意義があるか検討する日本学術会議の第２回委員会が１日開かれた。当面の実験に必要な性能に下げれば、約２割減額の建設費６３１０億円、総額８２００億円になるとの試算を示した。(The 2nd meeting of the committee under the Science Council of Japan to evaluate the ILC as a project housed by Japan on 1 July. Atsuto Suzuki reported that the cost of the accelerator will be 631 hundred million yen for the machine needed for the immediate priority experiment, 20% less than the estimated presented in the technical design report.)

宮城県は２９日、２０１４年度予算の政府要望で、超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」の岩手県南部・北上山地への誘致実現に向け、地質や環境の調査に着手するよう求める方針を固めた。(Miyagi prefecture requested the government to include the geological and ecological survey for the ILC in the FY 2014 budget as a part of the measure for the recovery from the major earthquake)

Scientists at home and abroad consider Japan the most likely candidate to host the ILC. A council of Japanese scientists, which evaluates possible ILC sites, is expected to choose one Japanese candidate based on the results of geological and environmental surveys next month.

「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」を誘致し、世界の科学者が集まり、関連産業が育つ国際都市をつくろうと、東北の北上山地（岩手県、宮城県）と九州の脊振(せふり)山地（福岡県、佐賀県）が綱引きしている。(A tug of war between Kitakami and Sefuri is getting fiercer to invite the ILC and build an international city in the area)