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Director's Corner

ILC250 Higgs factory: ready for launch!

by Jim Brau

The ILC with a collision energy of 250 GeV in its initial stage will be a proper Higgs factory, producing half a million nearly background-free Higgs particles over the course of a decade for true model-independent Higgs studies, as well as other SM tests and searches for other, new particles. "Bring them on," says Jim Brau, Associate Director for Physics and Detectors in the Linear Collider Collaboration. "We are ready."

Feature

2018, a milestone year for Higgs factories in Asia

by Jie Gao

The year 2018 will indeed be a milestone year for both the International Linear Collider ILC and the Circular Electron Positron Collider in China, two complementary Higgs factories. Gao Jie, linear collider researcher and chair of the Asia Linear Collider Steering Committee proposes a historical recall of the two projects.

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Mark Thomson to lead STFC

Mark Thomson, professor for Experimental Particle physics at the University of Cambridge, will lead the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council STFC from 1 April 2018. Thomson is an expert for particle flow calorimetry and detector development for future colliders like ILC and CLIC and is currently co-spokesperson for the DUNE collaboration.

Video of the week

Endorsing the ILC “in the strongest way”

“We have our hands around the mechanism that creates mass in nature but we need the tools to study it.” Barry Barish adds his voice to the #mylinearcollider video campaign, endorses the ILC "in the strongest way." Barish led the Global Design Effort for the ILC before he returned to LIGO and was awarded the Nobel Prize for the detection of gravitational waves.

In the News

  • from Kitakami Times
    23 February 2018
    ILC Relay ⑦

    We want people around the world to know how all of Iwate is working to bring about the ILC, so the ILC Relay is all about interviewing various people in Iwate who support the ILC project. For this ILC relay, I interviewed Daigo Fujinami of Oshu International Relations Association.

  • from Kahoku Shinpo
    22 February 2018
    ＜ＩＬＣ＞ＩＬＤ整備へ研究者ら議論　一関で国際会議

    「国際リニアコライダー（ＩＬＣ）」の活用法を話し合う国際会議が２０、２１日、岩手県一関市であった。ＩＬＣで電子と陽電子の衝突実験を測定する際に必要な国際大型測定器（ＩＬＤ＝インターナショナル・ラージ・ディテクター）の開発技術や整備について意見を交わした。On 20 and 21 February, International meeting for the ILC was held at Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture. Participants discussed about R&D on the particle detector, ILD.

  • from Iwate Nippo
    22 February 2018
    An interview with Ties Behnke, leader of the ILD team which had its conference in Ichinoseki – “It was important to hold it at the candidate site for the ILC”

    A three-day international conference for the ILD (the detector to be used in the ILC particle collider) was held on February 20-22 in Ichinoseki. Team leader Ties Behnke, researcher at DESY, talked to the Iwate Nippo about the significance of holding the conference at the candidate site for the ILC, and his expectations going forward. (Interviewed by Takahiro Miura, Ichinoseki branch)
    (Full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website. Read Japanese original here).

  • from Iwate Nippo
    21 February 2018
    ILD meeting held in Ichinoseki – discussing technical issues going forward

    February 20th kicked off a three-day international conference for the ILD (the detector to be used in the ILC particle collider) in Ichinoseki. Here, in the candidate site for the ILC, participants will talk through technical challenges as they prepare to realize the project.
    (Full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website. Read Japanese original here).

  • from Iwate Nippo
    14 February 2018
    Ichinoseki hosts a 3-day international conference on detectors for particle colliders

    Around 70 researchers from around the world will come to the area to debate how to improve detector performance and decrease costs.
    (Full translation provided by Iwate & the ILC website. Read Japanese original here).

  • from Kitakami Times
    31 January 2018
    The ILC Relay ⑥

    This month’s relay is brought to you by Mr. Koetsu Norita! If you’ve been to the IEEE NSS-MIC 2016 in Strasbourg, LCWS 2016 in Morioka, or LCWS 2017 in Strasbourg, you’ve probably seen Mr. Norita and his bright blue blazer at the Tohoku booth. Mr. Norita works at the Business Center of the Tohoku Economic Federation (Tokeiren), helping local businesses develop their marketing strategies