With the completion of the Technical Design Report just around the corner, activities surrounding the International Linear Collider have intensified in Japan. On 30 July, the eighth meeting of a study group in Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, was held in Saga prefecture. The study group was established in 2007 to study the value […]
The vision to invite the ILC laid out
On 10 July, governors, industrial leaders, and local officials of Japan’s northeastern area got together to attend a general meeting of the Tohoku Advanced Science and Technology Study Group. In the northeastern part of Japan, or Tohoku, activities towards inviting the ILC to the area has been intensified ever since the ILC was positioned as […]
New ILC website launched in Japan
On Monday 11 June, Japan’s Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA) launched a new website where site visitors can get all the information related to the ILC in Japanese. KEK, Japan’s high-energy physics laboratory, is the Japanese centre of ILC R&D, however KEK’s website is not the most convenient place to learn about the ILC. […]
ILC physics and detector programme sees progress in Kyushu
On 22 May, a small room at Kyushu University’s Hakozaki campus was crowded with journalists and local officials of the Kyushu area. A press briefing was held one day before the starting day of lively discussions on one of the detector concepts for the International Linear Collider, the ILD workshop. “I appreciate the media’s interests […]
Test facility at KEK becomes an accelerator
On 13 April at KEK’s superconducting radiofrequency test facility (STF), researchers successfully transported beam to the beam dump. The dump, located in the last part of the accelerator, is designed to absorb the energy of particles within accelerated beam. Now STF is no longer a test facility: it is the STF accelerator. STF is an […]
Akira Yamamoto: new year, new role
Akira Yamamoto, project manager of the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE), was appointed new head of KEK’s Linear Collider Project Office in Tsukuba, Japan. He has been already wearing two hats since he became one of the three ILC project managers in 2007, since he’s also head of KEK’s cryogenics science centre. He will be […]
Nobu Toge promoted to KEK trustee
On 30 March, KEK announced a management reshuffle for the new term, Japanese fiscal years 2012 to 2014. The ILC programme’s Nobu Toge was appointed as one of the four trustees. Toge is now in charge of planning and evaluating the laboratory’s medium-term objectives, information technology systems and crisis management. He is also responsible for […]
A cavity made in KEK’s Cavity Fabrication Facility
To realise the International Linear Collider, scientists need to address many issues. One of the most important is the primary cost driver for the ILC, the superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavity and cryomodule systems. At KEK, the team responsible for SCRF activity intends to seek cost-effective mass-production scenarios for the SCRF cavity. The ILC will have […]
ILC beyond the technical design
Realising a big international project such as the International Linear Collider involves many issues beyond finalising the technical design. The Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA), Japan’s industry-academia collaboration towards the realisation of the ILC, recently published a report to address such issues. This report, entitled “ILC – Issues in construction of the ILC […]
China awards Shin-ichi Kurokawa for his international scientific cooperation
Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus of KEK, and vice president of Cosylab, is one of three international scientists to have been awarded the 2011 award for International Scientific Cooperation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on 18 January. This award is given to honour eminent foreign experts who make outstanding contributions to facilitating cooperation with […]