Last week during the Asian Regional Workshop ALCW 2015 held in Tsukuba, the ILC broke with the tradition of staying in one place when the workshop participants moved en masse to Tokyo for what is best described as a multicultural extravaganza in support of the International Linear Collider. Taking advantage of the workshop’s location in Japan […]
April in Paris
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is a feeling That no one can ever reprise” Thus run the lyrics of the famous song, composed by Vernon Duke in 1932. Indeed the first Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting of the LCC era was held in idyllic weather […]
The CLIC workshop: a summary of results
The 2015 CLIC workshop took place at CERN from 27 to 30 January 2015, covering accelerator as well as detector and physics studies. With more than 260 participants and more than 200 talks the meeting was both well attended and full of interesting new results. The week was built around an open high-energy frontier session […]
Updating the physics case for the ILC
The physics case of the ILC has been studied intensively for many years, culminating in the physics volume of the Technical Design Report (TDR). It was followed by efforts to compare various machines such as the European Strategy studies and the Snowmass studies. Still, the scientific and political environments surrounding the ILC keep changing. On […]
Towards global political support
When the LCC visited the Tohoku region in January, we had an opportunity to see a couple of Diet members and their staff. One of them was very succinct about the problems concerning ILC. He pointed out that the Federation of Diet members to promote a construction of international laboratory for LC boasts more than 20% […]
Evaluating technology spinoffs from ILC in Japan, and visits to Americas
A group of Japanese researchers is on a world tour of research institutes. They are working on a study of the technological and economic spin-offs of the ILC project and trends in research around the world in the fields of particle and nuclear fields, commissioned by Japanese funding agency MEXT. Harry Weerts, LCC Director for […]
Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 coming soon
As LC NewsLine reported in its 8-January issue, the Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 (ALCW2015) will take place at KEK from 20 – 24 April. The workshop will be devoted to accelerator, physics and detector aspects of future high energy electron-positron linear colliders. This workshop is the first Asian regional workshop since the LCC started […]
Directorate on the road
Recently the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) Directorate visited the proposed location of the International Linear Collider in the Kitakami mountains located in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, north of Sendai city, Japan. LCC members have visited the candidate site several times already, and the purpose of this visit was to evaluate the conditions of transportation of […]
A year with the ILC
At this time in the calendar it is difficult to avoid the temptation to look back at the past year and ahead to the upcoming one. I have proved unable to successfully fight that impulse so the first Directors Corner of 2015 involves some personal observations and conjectures both past and future. For the ILC, […]
Return to Dubna
One of the historical characteristics of particle physics is its ability to cross borders and geopolitical power blocks, irrespective of tensions and diplomatic relations. Throughout the Cold War, cordial relations existed between colleagues in the West and the East, with many Russian scientists working at CERN and some CERN scientists working at accelerators in the […]