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 […]
Introducing a Global Linear Collider Vision
Jenny List presenting a global vision for a Linear Collider at LCWS 2024, held at the University of Tokyo on July 8 For well over 20 years, there have been two major linear collider proposals: the International Linear Collider (ILC), based on klystron-driven superconducting radio frequency (SCRF) cavities, and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), based on normal-conducting cavities powered […]
This technology network has acceleration potential
In the International Development Team’s (IDT) Working Group 2 about ILC accelerators there are about 50 accelerator researchers. A total of 18 work packages have been proposed in five accelerator fields for R&D items and are summarised in the technical proposal document. There are three work packages on the main linac and superconducting radio frequency […]
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 […]
The ILC: ten years and counting
Early in this new century I chaired the committee that was charged with making the difficult decision whether to pursue the design of a high energy electron-positron linear collider based on ‘warm’ (room temperature) or ‘cold’ (superconducting) cavities. Our committee made a decisive forward-looking decision to base the design on superconducting RF accelerating cavities. Springing from that […]
The IDT’s Physics and Detector Working Group after Snowmass
A Director's Corner by Jenny List, new chair of the working group
Recently, Hitoshi Murayama has been appointed as chair of the next Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel in the US, and therefore stepped down from his role as chair of the Physics and Detector Working Group of the International Development Team, also known as IDT-WG3. I would like to express my deep gratitude to Hitoshi for […]
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 […]
ILC expert panel review: hosting is not the problem, says Shoji Asai
Designed by Freepik Many in the high energy physics community might know that Japan’s ILC Advisory Panel which examines the ILC project for the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), released its recommendation on 14 February. Following that, KEK issued a statement about what steps they will take in response to […]