A picture says more than a thousand words, the old saying goes. But what about a number? A total of 2400 people signed the ILC Technical Design Report this year. They come from 392 institutes in 48 countries. While not yet in the realm of authors of an active experiment – the author number for […]
First full-size ILC cryomodule assembled at KEK’s STF test facility
The image shows the assembly work of the cold mass for an ILC cryomodule in the superconducting rf test facility (STF) at KEK. Since the STF tunnel has a limitation for the size of the components to bring in, only half-size modules could be assembled before. STF now is equipped with new assembly facility in […]
Impressions from the 2013 Linear Collider Workshop in Tokyo
Did you miss last week’s International Workshop on Future Linear Collider LCWS 2013 but wish you’d been there? Or were you one of the over 300 participants who discussed the physics case for a high energy linear electron-positron collider at the University of Tokyo? Whatever your motivation, here is a slideshow with some impression from the […]
Reminder: European ILC informal discussion
Last week’s issue of NewsLine announced a wrong date for the “Informal Discussion” to take place in conjunction with the French Linear Collider days. The meeting will take place on Friday, 29 November from 14:00 to 18:00 h at LAL Orsay. A special Indico page has been set up for this event.
Understanding the ILC (hand-made animation inside)
A nice hand-made animation explains why a linear collider is needed to study the Higgs particle in great detail. Enjoy the description of the ILC machine “and then BOOM… science”. Credit: University of Texas-Arlington
Rendez-vous at the Journées Collisionneur Linéaire
The 2013 CEA/Irfu Linear Collider Days organised jointly with CNRS/IN2P3 will take place at CEA Saclay in Building 526 Amphitheatre Joliot Curie from 27 to 29 November. This will be the second “Journées Collisionneur Linéaire”of the French community, following the first event organised in Lyon on 13-14 May 2013. The goal of the meeting is […]
European ILC informal discussion
In conjunction with the French Linear Collider days, the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) is organising an “Informal Discussion” about the current status of EU projects, in particular the future EU Horizon-2020 call and its implications for the ILC community. The meeting should include a few representatives from each European country. It will take place on […]
A physicist walks into a rice paddy…
The Linear Collider Collaboration management team visited the recommended site in the Kitakami mountains last week. Surrounded by local journalists, including several camera teams, they inspected the area that might one day host the International Linear Collider.
From CERN: CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large […]
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments […]