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Director's Corner

Directorate on the road

by Lyn Evans

The LCC Directorate is constantly reinforcing its bridges, especially with our Japanese colleagues. At this critical time before the decision whether Japan will offer to host the ILC is taken, they travelled to the designated site to inspect port, roads and discuss with local and national authorities, reports LCC Director Lyn Evans. If the ILC gets built, some real bridges will have to be reinforced so that heavy high-tech can travel from the port to the site.

Live from Japan

A chat with Masataka Miya of the Iwate Government

by Amanda Wayama

Things are moving forward in the year 2015 – technical planning for the ILC is proceeding, and the Japanese national government is preparing to make a decision whether or not to host the project. But what about Iwate, the region home to the Kitakami candidate site? What are their plans for 2015? Masataka Miya, director of ILC Promotion for Iwate, talks to Amanda Wayama, International Communications Officer for the Iwate Prefectural Government, about Iwate’s strategy for the next year.

Around the World

2020 on the horizon

AIDA-2020 proposal selected – 10 million euros of funding for detector R&D

by Barbara Warmbein

Good news for detector developers in Europe: the AIDA-2020 proposal to the European Commission has been selected to be funded as part of the Horizon 2020 programme. This means that future projects needing state-of-the-art particle detectors like the Large Hadron Collider upgrade and the linear collider will receive a total of ten million euros funding over the next four years. Thirty-eight participants from all across Europe take part in AIDA2020, including CERN as coordinating institute, making it the largest European detector R&D project.

Image of the week

Chocolate collision

by Rika Takahashi

The LCC Directorate was given a special treat during one of the stopovers of the Tohoku visit (read also the Director’s corner): ILC korone, a type of chocolate croissant. With chocolate cream on one side (representing electrons) and vanilla cream on the other (representing positrons), and sprinkled with colored chocolate spray as particles, the baker said that they show you new particles at ILC collisions. A delicious example of physics-inspired food… View all photos

In the News

  • from Kahoku Shinpo
    14 January 2015

    「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」の研究者でつくる国際推進組織リニアコライダー・コラボレーション(LCC)の幹部7人は13日、ILC建設候補地の北上山地視察のため気仙沼、一関両市を訪れた。

  • from Kahoku Shinpo
    15 January 2015

    リニアコライダー・コラボレーション(LCC)の幹部8人が14日、仙台市の東北大などを訪れた。建設候補地の北上山地にILCができた場合の外国人研究者の受け入れ態勢などについて、東北の産学官関係者と意見交換した。

  • from Nikkei Shimbun
    15 January 2015

    国内外の研究者らでつくる次世代加速器「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」の国際推進組織の幹部らは14日、2日間の東北視察を終えた。

  • from Denki Shimbun
    15 January 2015

    高橋宏明・東北経済連合会会長(東北電力会長)は14日、LCC主要メンバーと仙台市内で面談した。一行を迎えた高橋会長は東北訪問に感謝の意を示し歓迎。「地域の子どもたちがILCに高い関心と期待を持っている」などと伝えた。

  • from Kahoku Shimpo
    13 January 2015

    村井嘉浩知事は13日、原子レベルで物質の構造を解析する大型放射光施設の誘致実現に向け、先進地のフランス南東部グルノーブルを視察する予定を明らかにした。村井知事はグルノーブル視察の日程中に、併せてスイスの欧州合同原子核研究所(CERN=セルン)を視察する意向も示した。岩手県南と宮城県北にまたがる北上山地が候補地の超大型加速器「国際リニアコライダー(ILC)」の建設推進につなげる考え。

  • from Mainichi Shimbun
    14 January 2015

    岩手・宮城両県などが誘致を進める巨大加速器ILCの建設計画に関連し、施設を利用しての国際共同研究を予定する「リニアコライダー・コラボレーション(LCC)」のメンバーが13日、気仙沼市を視察に訪れた。