On 12 June, representatives from the following four organizations submitted a letter of request asking the Japanese government to explicitly express an intention to host the International Linear Collider (ILC): the Tohoku ILC Promotion Council, the Hokkaido/Tohoku Governors’ Association, the Hokkaido/Tohoku Prefectural Assembly Chairpersons’ Association, and the Tohoku Mayors’ Association. Since the national government gave […]
RPCs in the wild
Detector technology help in the most extensive study of the structure and behaviour of a volcano
Technology developed under the AIDA-2020 project is sure to make the most out of collisions at future colliders. But did you know it might also be able to save lives? One detector made of RPCs – resistive plate chambers – improved under AIDA-2020 is set to take up residence at the side of a volcano […]
ILC International Working Group Established — First Meeting Held in Granada
STF-2 Beam Operation Demonstrates ILC Specifications
From CERN: In Granada, the European particle physics community prepares decisions for the future of the field
Geneva and Granada. The European particle physics community is meeting this week in Granada, Spain, to discuss the roadmap for the future of the discipline. The aim of the symposium is to define scientific priorities and technological approaches for the coming years and to consider plans for the medium- and long-term future. An important focus […]
From KEK: KEK presented its plan for the ILC project in Lausanne
Masanori Yamauchi, Director General of KEK, made a presentation regarding KEK’s plan for the ILC, at the international conference held on 8-9 April 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland. About 100 scientists from around the world who aim for the realization of electron-positron linear colliders gathered at the Linear Collider Community Meeting, to discuss the future linear […]
From Symmetry: Falsifiability and physics
From KEK: ICFA received Japan’s view to the ILC
NIKOS : please link to KEK news : https://www.kek.jp/en/newsroom/2019/03/13/2100/
The ILC Supporters – celebrities for the linear collider
The ILC Supporters are a Japanese movement, and so many things about this group are particularly, to European and American minds sometimes exotically, Japanese. Take our ILC Supporter member and interviewee, for example. Her name is Kimura U and she is a designer. She is also, and notably, Japan’s “kawaii ambassador”– official if unpaid posts created […]
Getting lots of heads round the test beam data
Workshops don’t get much more intense than this. A group of students and experts from the CALICE Collaboration recently spent three weeks tucked away at the University of Tokyo to get their heads round and analyse all the data taken at the most recent testbeam of the CALICE calorimeter setup. What would normally take a […]