The final preparatory step in our process of defining the baseline for the Technical Design Report (TDR) is to carry out a set of four Baseline Technical Reviews (BTR) that concentrate on the large number of small technical decisions that remain to be defined for the TDR baseline. We previously made a set of top-level […]
A visit to the two candidate Japanese ILC sites
A common question I am often asked is where the ILC will be sited. That is obviously a very important question, but we don’t have an answer yet. We will complete the Technical Design Report (TDR) within the next year and the Large Hadron Collider will, we believe, produce physics results that can both motivate […]
December events and challenges ahead
Finally – finally we start to see results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that can provide guidance towards a linear collider implementation. It is too early to be conclusive, and more data is definitely needed, but we can be optimistic and excited about 2012. The LHC experiments are zooming in on a low energy […]
Linear Collider Accelerator School
The Sixth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders was held from 6 to 17 November last year at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, US. This highly selective and successful school series began in 2006 in Japan and has rotated between America, Europe and Asia in subsequent years. The school has an in-depth […]
Timely Technical Review
The culmination of the work of the ILC Global Design Effort is to produce a Technical Design Report (TDR), which will be comprehensive and can be used as the basis of project proposals to collaborating governments. We are finalising the design that will be documented in the TDR as well as planning the pre-TDR R&D […]
Our goals for 2012
Happy New Year! Today is a good time to take stock of what we achieved last year and reflect on our goals for the coming year. The primary goal for 2011 was to establish a new ILC baseline that would be better optimised for cost, performance and risk, as well as to carry out the […]
ILC goes one step further
Today's special issue features a Director's Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director
On Thursday, 15 December, a symposium was held in Tokyo. This is only one event of a frequently held symposium series, but this time it drew much attention from Japanese media because Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister of Japan, gave a speech there. This symposium was hosted by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science […]
Japanese interest in hosting the ILC
On behalf of my colleagues worldwide who have been working so hard to develop a design for the International Linear Collider, we enthusiastically welcome the Japanese expression of interest in hosting the ILC. We report in today’s special issue of NewsLine on a special high-level meeting addressing this subject that was held in Japan last […]
Recovery from March 2011 earthquake at ATF, KEK
As of this month, nine months have passed since the Great Eastern Japan earthquake, also known as the 3.11 Earthquake. Restoration of the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) is in its final stage at KEK, Japan, where the ATF2 project, the final focus test beam for ILC, is being conducted with an international collaboration. The geological […]
Pondering the future of particle physics
The International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) sponsors a seminar on “Future Perspectives in High Energy Physics” every three years. This year’s four-day international exchange of information, held at CERN from 3 to 6 October, concentrated on plans for future facilities in the field of particle physics. In addition, the seminar reviewed the new results from […]