The recently released recommendations of the European Strategy Group discuss Linear Colliders as technologically mature flagship projects which offer a competitive science program in Higgs and Top physics, while not ranking alternative projects beyond the FCC-ee. The next steps for Linear Colliders will be discussed at the LinearCollider@CERN Workshop in early January. by Jenny List, Tatsuya Nakada […]
Shaping the future at the Linear Collider Vision Community Event
From January 8 to 10, about 200 particle and accelerator physicists met at CERN and on zoom for the LC Vision Community Event. The meeting started with a session organised by Early Career Scientists. It moved on to discussion physics case, luminosity and staging scenarios, advanced acceleration technologies, future perspectives on detectors and the implementation of a […]
LCWS2021- the community focuses on an ILC Pre-Lab as the next step
The 2021 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2021), arranged by Europe as an online conference with more than 900 registered participants, took place from 15 to 18 March. As earlier conferences in this series it was primarily devoted to the physics, detector, and accelerator studies for the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) and the International […]
Registration for LCWS 2021 (March 15-18) is now open
The 2021 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS 2021) is scheduled to take place March 15-18, in an online format, arranged by Europe. LCWS 2021, similar to earlier workshops in this series, is a common ILC and CLIC workshop. A preliminary version of the workshop Indico page is now available. With a wide programme of […]
Two workshops 2021 – Please mark your calendars
The 2021 International Workshop on Linear Colliders (LCWS 2021) will be arranged by Europe/CERN as a remote meeting from15 to 19 March next year. Similar to the past meetings, it will cover the physics, detector, and accelerator studies of ILC and CLIC. The meeting will be at a timely moment since the European Strategy for […]
A linear collider strategy
The European Strategy process (ESPP) is moving ahead, with an Open Symposium in Granada, Spain as the next main event. Preparing for this meeting and strategy discussions in general, a Linear Collider Community Meeting was held at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in the beginning of April. The meeting was arranged on […]
Preparing for the update
The Linear Collider (LC) activities world-wide are entering a defining two years. The overall picture is quite clear in the short term. The European Strategy Update process has defined its organisation and timescale in more detail, expecting input documents to be submitted by the end of 2018. On the ILC side we are expecting clarifying […]
CLIC – optimising the initial 380-GeV stage
In August this year the CLIC collaboration published an updated baseline staging scenario with emphasis on an optimised first-energy stage at 380 GeV for the accelerator. CLIC can then be extended to higher energies in further stages. The studies represent an update the staging scenario described in the 2012 Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for CLIC, prepared before […]
Two Linear Collider events in Whistler, Canada this autumn
As the summer conferences are kicking off, providing more and more complete 8 TeV LHC (Large Hadron Collider) results and the very first glimpses of 13 TeV data, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop […]
The CLIC workshop: a summary of results
The 2015 CLIC workshop took place at CERN from 27 to 30 January 2015, covering accelerator as well as detector and physics studies. With more than 260 participants and more than 200 talks the meeting was both well attended and full of interesting new results. The week was built around an open high-energy frontier session […]