With the future in mind, Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, KEK has made a change to its organisational structure regarding the ILC project. By doing so, KEK is getting ready for the “green light” from Japanese government. “The main purpose of this change is to make the functions and roles clearer,” said Masanori Yamauchi, […]
Big science needs international partnership
International Linear Collider is, as its name suggests, is being discussed as an international project, which involves many countries around the world. As reported in the 3 March issue of LC NewsLine, US-Japan Political Leader’s Forum on Science and Technology was held in Washington D.C., USA, marking a important milestone to move the ILC project forward. […]
Directors from major particle physics labs meet Japanese journalists
On 26 February, members of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) gathered in a conference room in Tokyo, Japan, for the press conference. Joachim Mnich, Research Director at DESY and the current chair of ICFA, Nigel Lockyer, Director of Fermilab, U.S., Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Masanori Yamauchi, Director-General of KEK sat at […]
KEK’s science comic features the ILC
Japan’s KEK laboratory has featured a series of a science comic called “Kasoku Kids” on its website since December 2008. This public relation tool has proven to work quite effectively to make new particle physics fans, especially very young children. KEK staff met some of real-life Kasoku Kids at the open house: They had memorised […]
KEK issues action plan for the International Linear Collider
Japan’s KEK laboratory took a step forward to realise the International Linear Collider on 6 January, issuing a “KEK-ILC Action Plan”. This plan blueprints how KEK should start its preparation towards the ILC when the Japanese government gives its green light for the project. “Green Light” in this document is defined as a formal announcement […]
New working group toward ILC in Japan meets for the first time
Getting the best people from all over the world is one of the biggest challenges to realise the International Linear Collider, the next-generation electron-positron collider. That’s why there’s a new working group on human resources, called into being by Japan’s ILC Advisory Panel, to tackle the issue before the ILC has even been approved. On […]
Quench your thirst for the ILC
Pin badges, flags and banners, paper folders, cakes… There are various promotional goods produced by kind supporters for the ILC. Now, we have ILC Coke! The Iwate Prefecture International Linear Collider Promotion Council produced miniature Coca-Cola cans with an ILC logo to bring understanding and empathy for the ILC project. An official from the Council […]
Future accelerator scientists’ fulfilling twelve days
Counting down to the ski season, still off-season Whistler, in British Columbia, Canada, was an ideal place for student to concentrate on the study for the 9th International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders. This school was organised by the Linear Collider Collaboration and the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel, and hosted by Canadian national laboratory TRIUMF. […]
Linear Collider Collaboration published Progress Report for the ILC
The Linear Collider Collaboration is pleased to announced the official release of the International Linear Collider Progress Report. The ILC Progress Report is a document outlining the technical progress after the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR) in 2013. It contains the information regarding the progress in civil engineering studies, accelerator hardware design/development updates, […]
Japan’s expert panel for the ILC has published its summary report
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has released on 5 August its summary report of the discussions by the expert panel (ILC Advisory Panel) to investigate various issues regarding the ILC. The panel was established in May last year, with two subcommittees: one, the ILC particle & nuclear physics subcommittee, to investigate […]