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Director's Corner

All eyes on ICFA

by Tatsuya Nakada

Almost one and half year has passed since the ILC International development Team was formed with the aim to prepare the ILC Preparatory Laboratory. In the coming months, we will explore and develop ideas for the Pre-lab implementation to provide information necessary for the ICFA discussion.

Feature

SiD reinvents itself

New sensors, new hardware, better timing for the proposed ILC detector

by Barbara Warmbein

There are thought exercises that end in the head or on paper and there are those that lead to change. A group of scientists working on the SiD detector, one of the two particle detectors proposed for the International Linear Collider ILC, have just turned one of those exercises into a major technological overhaul for their detector. Here’s an overview of what will be different if the green light to build the ILC comes.

Around the World

Interactions between science and comedy

by Rika Takahashi

Public support plays a major role in carrying out big scientific projects such as the International Linear Collider. The ILC International Development Team is taking a fun approach to getting the Japanese people to get in touch with the ILC :a YouTube livestreaming series of talk shows with comedian Fukumaru Katsura.

Announcements

KEK fundraising campaign

by Rika Takahashi

KEK is fundraising to gain understanding and support from the public to realise the ILC in Japan. Please give your warm support! All support will be used for communication activities. For the supporters who donate ¥2000 and more will receive original calendar for return.

Video of the week

ILC and you

Don't ask what the ILC can do for you... because you know already that it's set to deliver collisions that might hold the answer to some of the most pressing questions in particle physics. However, there are things you can do that might help the project on the way. Watch the recording of the communication session where communicating scientists and science communicators met during last year's ILCX meeting.

In the News

  • from ibc
    04 February 2022

    ILC=国際リニアコライダーの誘致実現に向けた岩手県の推進本部会議が、4日開かれました。達増知事は、改めて県を挙げて取り組みを推進していくと意気込みました。

  • from KITAKAMI TIMES
    02 February 2022

    The Ichinoseki “Southern Agricultural Technology Development Center” is aiming to cultivate and popularize western vegetables in Ichinoseki, as the city is a candidate construction site for the ILC.

  • from KITAKAMI TIMES
    02 February 2022

    December, the month of Christmas. This is a holiday celebrated in Japan too, and today, we will introduce, along with some photos of the season in Morioka, a slightly different and uniquely Japanese way of celebrating Christmas.

  • from Project Design Online
    February 2022

    同社が実験を重ねて技術力を蓄えることは、異分野からの宇宙産業への進出を促したり、新しいビジネスの進展を加速させることにつながるだろう。もちろん、地元活性化への好影響も期待される。もともと東北は、能代(秋田県)と角田(宮城県)にJAXAの拠点があるほか、素粒子物理学の実験装置(国際リニアコライダー)を岩手・北上山地に誘致するなど、宇宙ビジネスに縁のある土地柄だ。東北大学発のシーズは、ispace、ALE、PDエアロスペースといった宇宙ベンチャーに採用されている。

  • from TechTiimes
    28 January 2022

    According to Science.org, the Japanese government is now hesitant to build their $7.5-billion International Linear Collider (ILC) due to the underwhelming nature of the Large Hadron Collider’s discoveries-or lack thereof.

  • from Big Think
    06 January 2022

    The idea of a linear lepton collider has been bandied about in the particle physics community as the ideal machine to explore post-LHC physics for many decades, but that was under the assumption that the LHC would find a new particle other than the Higgs. If we want to do precision testing of Standard Model particles to indirectly search for new physics, a linear collider may be an inferior option to a circular lepton collider, as the length limitations on a linear collider are quite strict.

  • from IN2P3
    05 January 2022

    Plusieurs grands projets à venir augmenteront la demande de telles cavités, comme le Futur collisionneur circulaire (FCC) qui prendra la suite du LHC vers 2040, le projet International Linear Collider (ILC) qui pourrait voir le jour au Japon, l’ESS ou encore le prototype de réacteur nucléaire alimenté par un accélérateur de particules MYRRHA11 en Belgique, mené côté français par l’IJCLab, le LPSC et d’autres laboratoires.

  • from Iwate Nippo
    24 December 2022

    一関二高(高橋正勝校長、生徒589人)の1年生は授業で、国際リニアコライダー(ILC)を基軸としたまちづくりの提言に取り組んでいる。国内外から大勢の研究者らが移住する多文化共生社会をイメージ。地域が抱える人口減少など課題解決の可能性も踏まえ、思い思いの未来図をポスターにまとめた。

  • from E & T
    15 December 2021

    Dr Godbole has won global recognition for her research on the different aspects of particle phenomenology, a pursuit that began three decades ago, and is best known for her work at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. At CERN, she has contributed towards the design and implementation of the Large Hadron Collider and the Next Linear Collider.

  • from Iwate Nippo
    15 December 2021

    東北経済連合会(海輪誠会長)、北海道経済連合会(真弓明彦会長)、北陸経済連合会(金井豊会長)は14日、政府と自民党に地域経済対策の推進などを要望した。 —— 国際リニアコライダー(ILC)実現に向けた日米欧政府間の国際協議と加速器の技術開発の推進・強化も盛り込んだ。

  • from IN2P3
    29 November 2021

    Une ingénieure au service des physiciens : c’est avec réalisme qu’Angeles Faus-Golfe considère sa fonction au sein de l’IN2P3. « Les accélérateurs sont des cathédrales technologiques, mais on ne construit pas des cathédrales juste pour qu’elles soient belles », se justifie-t-elle. Le Large Hadron Collider (LHC), les futurs: International Linear Collider (ILC), Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) et Future Circular Collider (FCC) et tous les autres accélérateurs de particules sur lesquels elle a travaillé sont des instruments mis à disposition de ses collègues pour répondre aux grandes questions que la physique se pose.

  • from Iwate Nippo
    26 November 2021

    国際リニアコライダー(ILC)の誘致を目指す東北ILC推進協議会(共同代表・大野英男東北大総長、高橋宏明東北経済連合会名誉会長)は25日、仙台市内のホテルで講演会を開いた。東京大素粒子物理国際研究センターの浅井祥仁(しょうじ)センター長(54)はILC開発が加速器技術を進展させ「イノベーション(技術革新)が生まれる」と説いた。

  • from Iwate Nippo
    29 December 2021

    一関市大東町の大原まちづくりの会(熊谷幸次会長)は26日、地元の大原市民センターで、国際リニアコライダー(ILC)のセミナーを開き、約30人が専門家から安全対策や誘致活動の最新の動向を学んだ。