The previous iteration of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) gave as its first recommendation: “An electron-positron Higgs factory is the highest-priority next collider.” This recommendation is, in our view, best addressed by constructing an e+e− Higgs factory that meets all of the physics goals of such a collider in a way that is […]
Articulating the physics case for the ILC
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Michael Peskin, convener of the Physics Common Task Group and of the group preparing the physics chapter of the Detailed Baseline Design report.
The Global Design Effort (GDE) has promised to submit the ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012. To accompany this document, the physics and detector community is preparing the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). That report will discuss the physics measurements to be carried out at the ILC, present the detailed technical designs […]