Physicists discovered one type of Higgs boson in 2012. Now they’re looking for more.
When physicists discovered the Higgs boson in 2012, they declared the Standard Model of particle physics complete; they had finally found the missing piece of the particle puzzle. And yet, many questions remain about the basic components of the universe, including: Did we find the one and only type of Higgs boson? Or are there […]
It is time to prepare for the LCWS 2015 to be held in Whistler, BC, Canada. But let’s look back a while for the last Linear Collider conference held in Japan in Spring. Videos of the Tokyo Event are now available on TouTube. Check out the “ILC Tokyo Event” playlist on ILCCommunication YouTube channel. One […]
From 1 June 2015, Japanese cable TV, Tokyo Cable Network (TCN) started to broadcast the new program “ILC科学少年団 (ILC Science Kids club).” This program is jointly produced by TCN and Advance Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA), Japan’s industry-academia-government collaboration based on advanced accelerator technology. The program is a situation-drama featuring the Tomoyuki Sanuki […]
Masanori Yamauchi started his three-year term as head of Japan’s major center of particle physics research this spring.
At a recent symposium about the proposed International Linear Collider, Symmetry chatted with Masanori Yamauchi, the new director-general of KEK, Japan’s high-energy accelerator research organization. Yamauchi, who received his PhD in physics at the University of Tokyo, has been at the laboratory for more than 30 years.
On 3 June, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months at the record energy of 13 TeV. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next […]
“Nature is a lot smarter than we are,” says theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Gerard ‘t Hooft n his contribution to the #mylinearcollider campaign. As a theorist, it’s in his interest to figure out how the laws of nature work, and no matter how hard we think about them – we need experimental evidence for […]
The people of Iwate prefecture in northern Japan – the potential future home of the ILC – go to great lengths to show their support for the collider project. Banners under cherry blossoms and bumper stickers are just a few of the many examples of visible support – here are a few impressions from a […]
At the ILC Tokyo Symposium, held on April 22, 2015 at the Ito International Hall in Tokyo, Japan, members of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) issued a statement confirming their conviction of the scientific justification for a prompt realization of the International Linear Collider (ILC). The event included more than 300 global participants from the […]
Nobel laureates Toshihide Maskawa, Masatoshi Koshiba, David Gross and Burton Richter join the #mylinearcollider campaign. Plus as a little bonus a compilation of some of the videos collected during the campaign so far. Can you find yourself?
At the ILC Tokyo Symposium, held on 22 April 2015 at the Ito International Hall, Tokyo, Japan, the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and the more than 300 participants from around the world at the Asian Linear Collider Workshop (ALCW) 2015 decided to issue a statement confirming their conviction of the scientific justification for a prompt […]