The Higgs particle, cornerstone of the Standard Model (SM) and predicted 50 years ago was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on 4 July 2012. In fact, this extremely important particle has been searched intensively by circular electron positron colliders such as LEP-II at the end of the nineties at CERN, after SLC […]
Future large colliders in Asia – a personal perspective
With the discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in July 2012, after more than 50 years of searching, particle physics has finally entered the era of the Higgs, and the door for human beings to understand the unknown part of the Universe is wide open! The Standard Model theory […]
Concentrating our energy towards the realisation of the ILC
Jie Gao, chair of the Asian Linear Collider Steering Committee summarises the progress achieved in Asia in the last months towards the realisation of the ILC.
The official completion of the technical design for the International Linear Collider on 12 June 2013 marked the start of a new boosting engine for the ILC. The ILC was launched in 2005 in Snowmass, Colorado, after it was baptised in August 2004 at the technology decision by the ITRP panel. Now all engines are […]