NewsLine

Good things come in threes

| 27 June 2013

The last issue of LC NewsLine featured the two summary videos from the Asian and the European Technical Design Report handover event. Today we are proud to present part three: the summary of the Americas event that took place at Fermilab and culminated in the handing over of a gift-wrapped set of the report from […]

Press release: Next-generation particle accelerator is ready for construction

International Linear Collider publishes its Technical Design Report

| 13 June 2013

Tokyo, Geneva, Chicago – 12 June 2013. A five-volume report containing the blueprint for a future particle physics project, the International Linear Collider (ILC), was published today. In three consecutive ceremonies in Asia, Europe and the Americas, the authors of the Technical Design Report for the International Linear Collider, a next-generation particle collider to complement […]

Worldwide video

| 13 June 2013

The nature of a worldwide event happening consecutively in three regions of world is that people can only attend one of the three. So when celebrations ended in Japan and started in Europe, a video of the Asian event showed the participants in Europe what had happened during the day. Likewise, when Europe handed over […]

The TDR is online

| 13 June 2013

The Technical Design Report is out and you can download it here. There is also a dedicated TDR website, “from design to reality“, showing the content of Volume 5 of the TDR (the “outreach volume”).

Impressions from Hamburg

| 30 May 2013

How do you keep a bunch of physicists and engineers entertained? Give them a sense of accomplishment (“we’ve finished the Technical Design Report!”), a challenge (“how can we tackle the problems of the next phase?”), a sense of momentum (good signals from Japan for potentially hosting the ILC). And a bag of gummy bears. This […]

US and Japan discuss cooperation in advanced science and technology

| 2 May 2013

It’s suit and tie time when high-level US and Japanese science planners meet. At the US-Japan Advanced Science and Technology Symposium, held on 30 April in Washington DC, leaders from government, academia and industry met to discuss US-Japan cooperation in science and technology, using the ILC as an example. Learn more in the next issue […]