About Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama leads the Physics and Detectors efforts as WG3 Chair of the ILC International Development Team.
Hitoshi Murayama | 23 January 2014
We were all holding our breaths to see the Japanese government making an official move towards hosting the ILC. A small but significant move happened as a Christmas present with the release of the government budget proposal for the Japanese Fiscal Year 2014 which includes an official budget line for the ILC.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
budget, government, ILC site, international collaboration, Japan, R&D
Hitoshi Murayama and Satoru Yamashita | 10 October 2013
Many of you have seen a media report titled “Science council seeks more study of Japan’s role in particle collider". You may have wondered what this means for the ILC. Hitoshi Murayama and Satoru Yamashita explain that it’s much better than it sounds.
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Around the World | Tagged:
Japan, MEXT, Science Council of Japan
Hitoshi Murayama | 10 October 2013
The Nobel Prize in Physics this year has gone to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical discovery of the Higgs mechanism, recently confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's LHC. The linear collider community, represented by Deputy LCC Director Hitoshi Murayama, congratulates the two theorists on this appropriate award for the monumental work.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
ATLAS, CERN, CMS, Englert, Higgs, LHC, Nobel prize
Hitoshi Murayama | 8 August 2013
Waiting for his plane after an intense and productive Snowmass meeting with more than 700 participants in Minneapolis, Hitoshi Murayama reports that the scientific opportunities and aspirations discussed at the meeting seem to lead to basic community consensus. The hunt for the identity of the Higgs adds momentum.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
cosmic frontier, energy frontier, Higgs, intensity frontier, P5, Snowmass
Hitoshi Murayama | 18 April 2013
On 27 March, LCC Director Lyn Evans paid a courtesy visit to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who said a linear collider was a dream for humankind. Deputy Director Hitoshi Murayama also attended the meeting and explains why this moment was very special for him.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
Japan, Linear Collider Collaboration, siting, technology transfer
