The current Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) reports to the Linear Collider Board (LCB), which in turns reports to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). At previous ICFA meetings the mandate of the current LCC was extended to the end of 2016 and at its February 2016 meeting ICFA formed a committee, consisting of the […]
Driving cooperation projects forward
The 38th US-Japan HEP meeting
On 4 and 5 April last week, during the peak of the cherry blossoms in Japan, I attended the 38th US-Japan Joint Committee for High Energy Physics meeting at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan as part of the US delegation. These metings happen annually and the location alternates between Japan and the US. The […]
Future colliders
This LC newsline is a rather personal one for me and inspired by my experiences over the last decade and especially the last year or so. I have been and am a member of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), have worked on ILC for the last ten years, have contributed to the CLIC Physics & […]
Japanese diet members go to Washington
There was a visit by Japanese Diet members to Washington DC from 26 to 29 April (see “Discussions at the political level over the ILC in US and Europe” in this issue of LC NewsLine). I attended two of those meetings, one on 28 April at the Hudson Institute and one on 29 April at […]
Evaluating technology spinoffs from ILC in Japan, and visits to Americas
A group of Japanese researchers is on a world tour of research institutes. They are working on a study of the technological and economic spin-offs of the ILC project and trends in research around the world in the fields of particle and nuclear fields, commissioned by Japanese funding agency MEXT. Harry Weerts, LCC Director for […]
The 2014 ICFA seminar in Beijing
The ICFA seminar is a meeting held every three years, rotating through the Americas, Asia and Europe. The last meeting in 2011 was held at CERN, and the most recent one in Asia at the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing from 27 to 30 October. The next meeting in 2017 will be […]
The roadmap for high-energy physics in the US from P5
Around October 2012 the US high-energy physics (HEP) community and funding agencies started a strategic exercise to create a roadmap for the future of high-energy physics in the USA. The first step was the initiation of the Snowmass process to review the complete science status of the field. This culminated in the Snowmass 2013 meeting […]
Future Colliders: A strategic perspective
Over the past decades, colliders have defined the energy frontier in particle physics. Both electron-positron, proton-(anti)proton as well as electron-proton colliders have played complementary roles in fully mapping out the constituents and forces in the Standard Model (SM). We are now at a point where all predicted SM constituents have been found at colliders. Currently […]