Poster for the ILCX 2021 workshop. We have been planning for the coming ILCX 2021 workshop from 26 to 29 October 2021. We have a preliminary graphics for the poster and Local Organising Committee is working hard to understand logistics. Last week, Local Organising Committee and IDT Executive Board made the decision to hold the […]
ILCX 2021: Let’s discuss about possible experimental opportunities at the ILC
The ILC International Development Team (IDT) will hold the ILC Workshop on Potential ILC Experiments (ILCX) , from 26 – 29 October, 2021. With the growing anticipation that the preparatory laboratory (Pre-lab) will be launched in the near future, we would like to initiate serious discussions about all the possible experimental opportunities at the ILC laboratory. […]
Call for participation in Physics & Detector WG3
The IDT Working Group on Physics & Detector activities (WG3) would like to invite the community to engage in the ILC studies. WG3 aims to raise awareness and interest in the ILC development and expand the community, support newcomers to get involved in physics and detector studies, encourage new ideas for experimentations at the ILC. […]
ILC++: an opportunity for all kinds of experiments
Hitoshi Murayama asks you and the wider community to propose the experiment you’ve always dreamt of doing. There is international consensus that an electron-positron Higgs factory should be the highest-priority next collider, and the International Linear Collider is the most mature and time-ready Higgs factory. But the ILC can and should be much more than […]
Two workshops 2021 – Please mark your calendars
The 2021 International Workshop on Linear Colliders (LCWS 2021) will be arranged by Europe/CERN as a remote meeting from15 to 19 March next year. Similar to the past meetings, it will cover the physics, detector, and accelerator studies of ILC and CLIC. The meeting will be at a timely moment since the European Strategy for […]
CERN Council Open Symposium on the Update of European Strategy for Particle Physics
Six hundred (600) particle physicists gathered for discussions of the physics case for various options on the future of particle physics. This process to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics is mandated by the CERN Council every 6 or 7 years and this is the third time. In addition to people in Europe, there […]
Hiroshima
On 27 May this year, Barack Obama visited the site of atomic bombing in Hiroshima – a first for a serving President of the United States. I was deeply moved by the picture where Obama embraced an aging hibakusha, an atomic bomb survivor. It was very significant that the visit was not about the war […]
What Is Basic Science Good For?
I spend a fair amount of time giving public lectures on particle physics and cosmology around the world. Quite often, I receive the same question from the audience, “what is this good for?” There is a wonderful movie titled Particle Fever, a documentary about the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider […]
US-Japan symposium
As is well known, the International Linear Collider (ILC) is being discussed as an International project, which means many countries around the world would contribute human, technical, and financial resources to the project. This is clearly a very complicated proposition and it takes effort from many directions to keep it moving. Recently, three Diet Members […]
Collider facts
In Whistler, British Columbia, some two hundred physicists gathered to the annual Linear Collider Workshop. As the last speaker of the meeting, I tried to summarise the status of various collider options currently under discussion. In particular, I tried to clarify their readiness and timelines. The ILC passed the TDR (Technical Design Report) stage back […]