The 2016 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) is being held in Strasbourg, France from 29 October to 6 November. The opening plenary addressed a central pillar necessary to make fundamental research progress at a pace reflecting mankind’s ability to take up challenges and push the frontiers of knowledge – very large […]
One step further with the ILC Human Resource Working Group activities at MEXT, Japan
The Japanese ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology MEXT has been investigating the ILC project and the feasibility for it to be hosted in Japan with three working group activities on “Particle and Nuclear Physics” and “Technical Design Report validation” since JFY2014 and “Human Resource ensuring and training” since JFY2015, under the supervision […]
Towards an Asian Strategy for Particle Physics?
I may have been in the accelerator business in general and the linear collider business in particular for a very long time, but there are still things I have not understood properly – particularly on the political side. Last week I was invited to give a talk about the “ILC Technical Status” to the Asian […]
SRF Technology getting ready for the ILC: A Report from Whistler
The Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS2015) will be held, at Whistler, BC, Canada, in November, this year. The 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity (SRF2015) was held in the same place from 13 to 18, September, just prior to the LCWS. We would thank TRIUMF hosting two major conference/workshop events at the nicest village surrounded by […]
Field trip to a model lab
A delegation from Kesen-Numa City, from Japan, led by the Mayor Mr. Shigeru Sugawara, visited CERN and the area around it from 18 to 20 May. The group consisted of 16 representatives from the city’s Council, the Commercial and Industry Association, the Board of Education, the Reconstruction and Policy Planning Division and many other official bodies. […]
Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 coming soon
As LC NewsLine reported in its 8-January issue, the Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 (ALCW2015) will take place at KEK from 20 – 24 April. The workshop will be devoted to accelerator, physics and detector aspects of future high energy electron-positron linear colliders. This workshop is the first Asian regional workshop since the LCC started […]
Efforts for the ILC to be matured “from Design to Reality”
The 2014 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS’14) hosted by Vinca Institute of Nuclear Science, Serbia will be held in Belgrade, Serbia, next week from 6 to 10 October. The workshop will mark an important step for accelerator and detector design to be further optimised and prepared for the best physics case. The workshop […]
Of cavity performance, tiny beams and official roles: progress in a maturing project
From 12 to 16 May, the Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders (AWLC) 2014 was held at Fermilab in the US. AWLC is one of the series of regional linear collider workshops held around the world. The purpose of this workshop was the continued development of the physics case, and advancing detector and accelerator designs for […]
Now open: the Planning Office for the International Linear Collider to realise the ILC
I am pleased to be in charge to provide the Director’s Corner in timely manner and coinciding with a public announcement from KEK. KEK has set up a Planning Office for the International Linear Collider, headed by Atsuto Suzuki, Director General of KEK. It may serves a precursor for an international planning organisation for the […]
Advances in SCRF cavity performance in the Technical Design Phase
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort
The current ILC superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavity design is based on the so-called TESLA type (the elliptical shape as shown at left), a 1.3-gigahertz (GHz) nine-cell cavity. The design gradient has been set at 35 megavolts per metre (MV/m) and an average quality factor (Q0) of greater than 8×109 to realise the stable, long-term operation […]