Over the last 15 years, Japanese support for the realisation of the International Linear Collider has grown. People of all stripes —academics, members of industry, artists and everyday science fans—have banded together to voice their support for the building the ILC in Japan. The latest in this wave of support is the formation of a new committee, which recently reported on an impressive set of efforts to promote the ILC, says Andy Lankford, regional representative for the Americas in the International Development Team IDT.

The 2021 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS 2021) is scheduled to take place March 15-18, in an online format, arranged by Europe. LCWS 2021, similar to earlier workshops in this series, is a common ILC and CLIC workshop.

A preliminary version of the workshop Indico page is now available. With a wide programme of plenary and parallel sessions, the workshop aims to offer the opportunity for presenting ongoing work as well as for getting informed or, even better, involved. The main sessions and initial programme are available at the Indico page.

The programme will feature progress on the ILC in Japan as a prominent theme and use the ILC International Development Team (IDT) working groups’ substructure for sessions to review the progress in accelerator design, detector developments and physics studies. The progress of the CLIC studies within the same areas will also be covered, and most sessions and topics will be common. The registration is now open, and we invite everybody to sign up as soon as possible. There is no fee, but registration is needed to access the sessions.

You are all warmly welcome to LCWS 2021.

Steinar Stapnes, on behalf of the Organising Committee

The ILC International Development Team (IDT) will hold a workshop, Towards ILC Expressions of Interest, in October 2021 in Tsukuba, Japan, with focus on the experimental programme of the International Linear Collier (ILC). The main goal of the workshop is to start shaping the physics programme of the ILC through the oral presentations of ideas for ILC experiments in a form of expressions of interest (EoI’s) by the physics community.

Presentations on the experiments at any stage of development will be encouraged to ensure full exploitation of the ILC physics potential by considering a diverse set of experiments. The workshop will provide an opportunity for ideas at an early stage to build up collaborations and to elaborate further the experimental concepts. This workshop will also be an occasion for well-established groups to refine their experimental setups benefiting from the recent detector R&D and expanding community interest in the ILC. In addition, IDT activities and political developments, as well as local area activities and community efforts in Japan, should be presented. A small number of sessions on the ILC accelerator issues is also foreseen.

Currently, the workshop is planned to be face-to-face by assuming that the COVID situation will be normalised by the time of the meeting. As the venue, the Epochal Tsukuba International Congress Centre is foreseen. Since there is a finite probability that the COVID situation may not be fully resolved in time, an option of holding the workshop in a hybrid mode with remote participation is envisaged.

See more information in this document.

Tatsuya Nakada, Chair of ILC-IDT Executive Board