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 […]
IDT Activities and Outlook- Summarising the 2025 activities by the IDT and anticipating what’s to come
The IDT activities this year have included finalising the ILC cost update, providing essential input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), supporting the 2025 Linear Collider Workshop in Valencia, following the Linear Collider Facility Vision activities, and coordinating the ITN work. The Intermediate Status Report of the ITN is now close to completion and […]
ILC in Europe’s Strategic Outlook
Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics for 2026
Since its first adoption by the CERN Council in 2006, the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP) has served as a guiding vision and roadmap for the field in Europe. It undergoes regular updates to reflect scientific and technological progress. The first and second updates were completed in 2013 and 2020, respectively. The third update […]
IDT input to the European Strategy2025 is a crucial year for planning – and drafting – the future
Since this is the first NewsLine of the year, let me start by wishing you all a happy new year. With the anticipated update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, where the meeting of the European Strategy Group for drafting is planned in December this year, we will have an exciting and busy 2025 […]
Decision to host: the ILC chicken or egg story
As an organisation set up by the International Committees for Future Accelerator (ICFA), the International Development Team (IDT) makes a regular status report at the ICFA meeting, taking place twice a year. The last report was given at the ICFA meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on 17 July. The meeting was held at the University of […]
New tasks for the International Development Team
After its creation in August 2020 by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), the ILC International Development Team (IDT) produced a proposal for the ILC Preparatory Laboratory (Pre-lab), organised the ILC Workshop on Potential Experiments and has been holding regular meetings of the working groups for the accelerator, and physics and detector. In the […]
IUPAP Statement on the events occurring in Ukraine
Through ICFA, the ILC International Development Team is connected to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). We would like to share with you the following statement that the IUPAP Executive Council published on their web page concerning the current tragic war situation in Ukraine: “We are consternated by the news regarding the […]
All eyes on ICFA
The International Development Team (IDT) has completed the Pre-lab proposal, a major milestone, and is working towards the final goal of realizing the Pre-lab, says Tatsuya Nakada, Chair of the Executive Board in the ILC International Development Team. The International Committee for Future Accelerators ICFA should discuss in their upcoming March meeting what the future of the IDT should be, taking a global strategy for a future Higgs factory into account, he suggests.
ILC Preparatory Laboratory proposal released
The ILC International Development Team (IDT) was established by the International Committee for Future Accelerator (ICFA) in August 2020, to prepare the ILC Preparatory Laboratory (Pre-lab) that would complete the technical development and engineering preparation for the International Linear Collider project to be ready for construction. During the same period, governmental authorities of interested nations […]
Status update for the autumn workshop in Japan
The ILC International Development Team (IDT) will hold a workshop, Towards ILC Expressions of Interest, in October 2021 in Tsukuba, Japan, with focus on the experimental programme of the International Linear Collier (ILC). The main goal of the workshop is to start shaping the physics programme of the ILC through the oral presentations of ideas for ILC experiments […]