Professor Masatoshi Koshiba, who was awarded with Nobel Prize for physics in 2002 for detecting cosmic neutrinos, passed away on 12 November at the age of 94. While he is known for the observation of solar and supernova neutrinos and by Kamiokande, Professor Koshiba will also be remembered as the physicist who started the e+e- […]
From the Letters of Intent to the ILC Technical Design Report
The Letter-of-Intent (LOI) period of the physics and detector activity of the ILC is coming close to completion. The achievements of the R&D studies during the period have been summarised in the detailed baseline design report (DBD), which will soon be submitted to ILCSC as part of the ILC’s Technical Design Report. It is being […]
Of complete DBD drafts, reviews and the future
The draft of the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD) of ILC physics and detectors is complete and has been submitted to the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILC Steering Committee (ILCSC) for review. This report presents the achievements of physics and detector R&D activities during the Letter-of-Intent process (LOI) since 2007. It summarises the […]
Community spirit helps us achieve our milestones
Now we are making the final spurt to complete Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). Of its two volumes, the physics volume describing the physics possibilities of the ILC was drafted by an author group convened by Michael Peskin in July and is now open for reading in the community. The draft of the other volume […]
In front of the door to a new world
Since the big news of the discovery of Higgs-like particle at LHC, we have been talking about it with enthusiasm a lot and at various occasions. I’m sure every particle physicist has been asked questions from families, friends or neighbours what the discovery means. The news stimulated big excitement about the Higgs particle in the […]
Encouraging news from CERN
We at the ILC Research Directorate are all thrilled with the announcement from CERN this week that a Higgs-like particle has been discovered. The Higgs particle has been a target of our experiments for over decades, and the affirming news that has finally arrived from the LHC is a great step forward. I wish to […]
Marking our progress – Detailed Baseline Design report
During the past five years the physics and detector community has made much progress for establishing capable detector designs for the ILC. These achievements are to be summarised in the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD) by the end of this year. The DBD will make a solid milestone, marking the end of the Letter-of-Intent period […]
Towards a single directorate for ILC and CLIC physics and detectors studies
We are turning the last corner towards the completion of Detailed Baseline Design (DBD), which we plan to complete at the end of the year together with the Global Design Effort’s Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC accelerator. In a few weeks each of the two detector groups will submit a detailed outline of […]
Design report in the making: drafting the DBD
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
Progress made during LCWS11 in Granada
In Granada, Spain from 26-30 September, LCWS11 was held jointly between ILC and CLIC for the second time following the Geneva workshop last year. Regarding ILC physics and detector activity, good progress was made and a number of steps were taken for the completion of the detailed baseline design report (DBD). There were many meetings […]