Brian Foster | 6 August 2015I am sure that my readers will remember that in my last Director’s Corner, in April, I threatened to write at some future date about the new Project Implementation Planning (PIP) document. Those of you with an even longer memory, going back to my Director’s Corner of April 2014, may even remember what it is. Just in case, however, I take this opportunity not only to honour my promise of last April to also to refresh your memory and to offer you an opportunity to peruse the final document.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: campus, ESS, European XFEL, ITER, LCB, Project Implementation Planning
Steinar Stapnes | 23 July 2015As the summer conferences are kicking off, providing more and more complete LHC 8 TeV results and the very first glimpses of 13 TeV data, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The LCWS15 and the International Linear Collider School will be held in Whistler, BC, Canada.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: accelerator R&D, LC school, LCWS, TRIUMF
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 9 July 2015It is often said that the ILC is a precision machine. One should note, however, that the ILC is actually a discovery machine that can find new phenomena and new particles LHC would not be able to discover. Hitoshi Yamamoto explains a few unique features of the ILC that make discovery possible.
Hitoshi Murayama | 25 June 2015The default collision of the energy of the ILC has always been 500 GeV with promises of an upgrade to 1000 GeV. A while ago, alternative scenarios of a staged ILC that would start at 250 GeV and ramp to 500 GeV later were discussed. All scenarios were evaluated in the community and Hitoshi Murayama reports on the result: the ILC would start at 500 GeV, then go down to lower energies before possibly receiving an upgrade to even higher ones.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: centre-of-mass energy, Higgs, LHC, luminosity, running scenario, supersymmetry, upgrade
Harry Weerts | 11 June 2015Japanese and US officials as well as representatives from the physics community met in Washington, D.C. to discuss how Japan and the US can work together toward the realisation of the ILC. Americas Regional Director Harry Weerts reports.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: caucus, DOE, HEPAP, Japan, JSPS, MEXT
Akira Yamamoto | 28 May 2015A delegation from Kesen-Numa City, from Japan, led by the Mayor Mr. Shigeru Sugawara, visited CERN and the area around it from 18 to 20 May. The group consisted of 16 representatives from the city's Council, the Commercial and Industry Association, the Board of Education, the Reconstruction and Policy Planning Division and many other official bodies. They visited CERN to gather information on how a working laboratory functions and what it needs.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CERN, CFS, CMS, general facilities, ILC hosting, Japan
Lyn Evans | 14 May 2015After almost two years of major work on the machine and its detectors, the Large Hadron Collider is in the middle of the so-called commissioning phase. During the roughly two months of commissioning, the operators check out every little system in the large complex that is the LHC. LCC Director and former LHC project leader Lyn Evans watches and learns from the sidelines.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CLIC, ILC, LHC, operation, quench
Mike Harrison | 30 April 2015The organisers arranged a special “Tokyo Event”, to highlight the benefits of the ILC to Japanese society. More than 400 politicians, industry, media and workshop participants heard about the Tokyo Statement, Japanese demographics and followed a panel discussion that included the claim that physicists come across as ignorant. Mike Harrison sums up his impressions.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ALCW2015, CERN, DESY, IPMU, Japan, Tokyo Statement, Tokyo Symposium, TRIUMF, University of Tokyo
Brian Foster | 16 April 2015For the first Programme Advisory Committee meeting of the Linear Collider Collaboration, experts from all over the world gathered in France to review the status of the LCC and progress since the completion of the Technical Design Report in 2013. The committee was impressed by the progress both on the machine and the detectors. Brian Foster, European Director in the LCC, reports about the details.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: CLIC, CNRS/LAL, ILC, Japan, PAC
Steinar Stapnes | 2 April 2015The annual CLIC workshop took place at CERN in January. The well attended meeting covered accelerator, detector and physics studies and highlighted a year of interesting results for CLIC, Steinar Stapnes, Associate Director for the Compact Linear Collider Study in the Linear Collider Collaboration, explains.
