Strategic planning has become central to organising and prioritising the worldwide programme in particle physics. In Europe, the process of developing an update to the “European Strategy for Particle Physics” is under way, while in Japan, KEK is updating their roadmap and in the US, the Snowmass workshop on the future of the US programme […]
The US programme reduction
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director for the Global Design Effort
The 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said that laws are like sausages – it’s better not to see them being made. The US budget, when it finally appears, eventually becomes law. With the GDE mandate and the associated R&D programme for the ILC coming to an end with the final handover of the Technical […]
ILCSC plans the future
In the wake of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle at CERN, the International Linear Collider Steering Committee met at ICHEP12 to orchestrate its own demise (and ours), while taking steps to put into place its (and our) replacements that will have the goal of making the linear collider the next global project in high-energy […]
A game plan for producing the ILC Technical Design Report
The GDE Executive Committee met in a two-day face-to-face meeting in Melbourne just following ICHEP12. The main order of business was to develop a detailed “game plan” for producing the ILC Technical Design Report. The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and its subcommittee, the International Linear […]
Higgs search presentations at ICHEP 2012
One of the most rewarding features of physics research is the constant interplay between theory and experiment. The job of a physicist is to describe the physical world, and to advance our understanding of the laws of nature. Our science moves forward by the combination of experimentalists making observations that must be explained by theory, and […]
A crucial technical review
Scientific oversight for the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) is provided by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The ILCSC has appointed a panel of accelerator experts to review and monitor the technical progress of the GDE, as well as that of the experimental […]
Quantity, quality and keeping the resources
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director.
Recently, public interest in the International Linear Collider in Japan has rocketed sky high, almost as if it keeps in step with the activity of the Global Design Effort: we are in the final stage of completing the Technical Design Report. One might have noticed that the amount of ILC-related media coverage is increasing in […]
Physics thrives in South Korea
Many of us who are involved in ILC design efforts were in South Korea for the KILC12 workshop in May in Daegu. Wearing a different hat as past president of the American Physical Society, I was also invited to participate in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean Physical Society in Daejean. That […]
Linear Collider Accelerator School
Today, I am pleased to announce that the Seventh International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders will be held from 27 November to 8 December 2012 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Indore, India. These Linear Collider accelerator schools have been helping fill the need to provide training for young scientists interested in pursuing careers in […]
The Higgs and the ILC
The Higgs boson is being eagerly sought by particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN because it would explain how elementary particles get their mass, a process called spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. The discovery of a new phenomenon, maybe the Higgs boson, at the LHC at around 125 GeV could validate this concept, […]