The yearly international Linear Collider Workshop took place from 6 to 10 October 2014 in Belgrade, organised by the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences. The workshop gathered researchers from Europe, Asia and America primarily involved in the linear collider projects ILC and CLIC. Approximately 200 participants took part from 84 institutions in 21 countries. The […]
Challenges and goals for the LCWS14 in Belgrade 6-10 October
As the summer conferences are taking place, providing – we hope – further physics guidance for us, 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 which in 2014 will take place from 6 to 10 October […]
The CLIC workshop 2014
The yearly CLIC collaboration meeting took place at CERN on 3-7 February 2014. A record participation of more than 300 scientists/students from the more than 70 collaborating institutes set the scene for a very busy and lively week. After completing the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) in 2012, and the European Strategy update in 2013, the […]
The CLIC 2014 workshop at CERN
As the worldwide linear collider community comes together during the LCWS 2013 meeting in Tokyo next week, the CLIC collaboration has already started to plan their next major event, the 2014 CLIC workshop at CERN from 3 to 7 February. The yearly CLIC workshop brings together accelerator, detector and physics experts directly involved or connected […]
Strategy for linear colliders
After last summer’s preparation for the European Strategy process – in the meantime successfully concluded into an approved document by the CERN Council – this summer has been dedicated to the Snowmass process in the US, as well as hectic ILC preparations and discussions in Japan. In all regions linear collider projects are high on […]
Strategies and realities
The European Strategy for Particle Physics has been submitted to the CERN Council. The goal is final approval in the coming weeks. The significance of the Strategy document is high. It has been drafted by a combination of a scientific preparation group and various appointed representatives of the CERN member states, including also representatives from other […]
CLIC reaches a milestone
It is reporting season. As you all know the ILC community is hard at work producing the Technical Design Report that also includes the Detector Baseline Design reports. Similarly, the CLIC collaboration with associated Detector and Physics studies group have been hard at work completing the CLIC Conceptual Design Report (CDR). The three CDR volumes […]
December events and challenges ahead
Finally – finally we start to see results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that can provide guidance towards a linear collider implementation. It is too early to be conclusive, and more data is definitely needed, but we can be optimistic and excited about 2012. The LHC experiments are zooming in on a low energy […]