Tatsuya Nakada | 1 June 2021After ten months of work, the ILC International Development Team, mandated to prepare the ILC Preparatory Laboratory, is reaching the first milestone with the release of a proposal which outlines the organisational framework, an implementation model and work plan of the Pre-lab. Many scientists contributed to this effort, showing the great interest of the community in the ILC project. A signal from the Japanese government towards indicating its interest in hosting the ILC and supporting the Pre-lab would now be required for gaining stronger engagement of interested laboratories around the world.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: accelerator R&D, ICFA, ILC, Japan, Pre-Lab
Andy Lankford | 31 January 2021Over the last 15 years, Japanese support for the realisation of the International Linear Collider has grown. People of all stripes —academics, members of industry, artists and everyday science fans—have banded together to voice their support for the building the ILC in Japan. The latest in this wave of support is the formation of a new committee, which recently reported on an impressive set of efforts to promote the ILC, says Andy Lankford, regional representative for the Americas in the International Development Team IDT.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: JAHEP, Japan, Tohoku, US
Rika Takahashi | 31 January 2021Over the last 15 years, Japanese support for the realisation of the International Linear Collider has grown. People of all stripes — academics, members of industry, artists and everyday science fans — have banded together to voice their support for the building the ILC in Japan. The latest in this wave of support is the formation of a steering panel, which recently reported on an impressive set of efforts to promote the ILC.
Hitoshi Murayama | 24 December 2020The ILC as it is planned today will offer a host of possible physics studies, writes Hitoshi Murayama, Director for Physics and Detectors in the International Development Team for the ILC. He asks: But why stop there? What else, however fancy it may seem now, can you see the ILC doing – fixed-target experiments, experiments at the beam dump or or near the interaction point? Now is the time to propose them!
Tatsuya Nakada | 25 September 2020Tatsuya Nakada, freshly appointed chair of the newly founded ILC International Development Team, gives his view on the next 18 months in which the IDT will prepare for a Pre-Lab. It’s an ambitious plan, he says, but the overall atmosphere of the Team is very positive.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ICFA, IDT, ILC, Japan, KEK, Pre-Lab
Lyn Evans | 19 June 2020On 19 June, the long-awaited report of the study group for the future European Strategy for particle physics was presented. It was a clear and strong endorsement of the need for a Higgs factory as the essential next step for particle physics and a willingness of the European particle physics community to collaborate in the ILC.
Lyn Evans | 27 June 2019The decision-making process of hosting the International Linear Collider in Japan is now approaching a critical point. Director Lyn Evans hopes that the project is included in the “Japanese Master Plan of Large Research Projects.”
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC, LCWS, master plan, roadmap, SCJ
Jim Brau and Hitoshi Murayama | 30 May 2019Six hundred (600) particle physicists gathered for discussions of the physics case for various options on the future of particle physics. This process to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics is mandated by the CERN Council every 6 or 7 years and this is the third time. In addition to people in Europe, there was a substantial participation from other regions, including the Americas, Asia, and Oceania.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CLIC, ECFA, ICFA, ILC, Linear Collider
