Not only are particle detectors essential to making discoveries in particle physics, they also play important roles in industry, science and medicine.

文部科学省は２９日に公表した２０１５年度予算の概算要求で、超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」計画の調査検討費として、前年度比倍増となる１億円を計上した。(MEXT included 100 million yen ILC investigation budget for Japan’s 2015 budget request. This is twice as much increase from 2014 budget)

Such an accelerator would make for something of a partner to the International Linear Collider, the proposed successor (in spirit) to the LHC, which would initially achieve collision energies near 500 GeV and, later, 1,000 Gev, easily dwarfing not only the proposed Beijing collider but anything yet built or even imagined.

本県の北上山地（北上高地）の周辺で、国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）に関連する三つの国際会議が相次いで開かれる。(Around the Kitakami area, the candidate site for the ILC, three ILC related international meetings will be held consequently)

Particle physicists in China have unveiled plans to build a huge 52 km particle collider that would smash electrons and positrons together to study the Higgs boson in unprecedented detail. The so-called “Higgs factory”, if given government approval, would be built by 2028 and put the country at the forefront of international particle physics.

国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）の誘致実現に向けたシンポジウム「ＩＬＣの日本実現に向けて」（いわてＩＬＣ加速器科学推進会議など主催）は２３日、奥州市水沢区の市文化会館で、約８００人が参加して開かれた。(On 23 August, ILC symposium was held at a civic hall in Osh city, Iwate prefecture, with 800 audiences listening to the talks toward the realisation of the ILC.)