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 […]
Snowmass on the Mississippi in Minneapolis
Deputy Linear Collider Director Hitoshi Murayama says that for the ILC, momentum is key.
The Snowmass meeting has just finished with a great deal of enthusiasm. I’m writing this article as I wait for my flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport under the lingering excitement from the meeting of more than 700 physicists. We discussed about the future of high-energy physics in the US and laid out scientific opportunities. There […]
The challenge of technology
Mastery of difficult technologies is in the DNA of high-energy physics and the accelerators that enable the science. For many decades ever increasing beam energies and intensities have given rise to not just spectacular science results but also to a well documented stream of technical innovations which have resulted in spin-offs in many non-related fields. […]
Steering the direction of US high-energy physics
For the realisation of a linear collider, a significant contribution from the United States is essential. A critical step is that the project is positively included in the US strategy for high-energy physics. The formation of the US strategy is currently in progress through a multi-step process. First, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) […]
Moving from emotions to negotiations
We particle physicists have lived through some exciting times recently. A few years ago, the world witnessed live when the LHC was switched on for the first time (to my countdown). A few days later, one of the interconnects broke, and it took us more than a year to get the LHC back into shape. […]
The Global Design Effort completes its mandate in style and substance
The Global Design Effort has completed its mandate to produce a technical design for the ILC. Yesterday’s official handover of the Technical Design Report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) was the culmination of a celebratory three continent event this week. The discovery of a Higgs particle at the LHC at CERN, the […]
The ECFA LC2013 workshop
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia), chair of the Programme Committee of the European Linear Collider Workshop ECFA LC2013
This year, the regional Linear Collider workshop is taking place in Europe at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) from 27 to 31 May 2013. The participants have been welcomed by a spectacular wide chromatic range of greens in Hamburg, accompanied by the inevitable rain and sun that both make this wonderful manifestation of nature possible. The magic […]
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 […]
Demonstrating the ILC final focus parameters
A key feature of the ILC is that it is a single-pass machine. In contrast to a circular accelerator, where the beam goes around many times, the ILC beams pass through each accelerator element only once, including the interaction point. For the accelerator, this means that for each accelerating module, the machine must be very […]
Dream for humankind
Our recent meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a very special moment for me. He said a linear collider was a dream for humankind. The moment happened when LCC Director Lyn Evans visited Japan for three days at the end of March to meet many dignitaries. He had come to invite Japan to host the International Linear […]