Ichinoseki Ichinoseki would be one of the main hubs of ILC life. It’s a city with a major train station, hospitals, shopping centres, and nearly 130 000 inhabitants, spread over a rather large area – over 1200 square kilometres, which is nearly 10 times the size of Geneva (Switzerland). This is because it was merged […]
A day in the life of a particle physicist in Kitakami
The life of a particle physicist is the same everywhere in the world one might say. It’s true that the physicist’s work life at the future ILC is easily predictable. Computing and data taking or analysis, meeting with colleagues, tons of coffee and tea, short lunch breaks at the cafeteria (with “electron” and “positron” menus?), […]
The year 2014 – The real starting year of the ILC?
Close to the end of the year 2013, we had encouraging news for the ILC. On 24 December, the Japanese cabinet released the government budget decision for fiscal year 2014 – which includes an official budget for the International Linear Collider. The amount of the budget is 50 million yen, about half a million US […]
Bubble wrap made of granite: the ILC and seismic activity
Why are we confident the ILC can be built in a seismic country?
In August 2013, the International Linear Collider site evaluation committee of Japan announced that they evaluated a site in Kitakami as the best candidate location in Japan for the ILC. The exciting news came after meticulous preparation and study to ensure that the site was suitable for the 31-kilometre linear collider. Among the most important […]
From Fermilab Today: First cavity in Cryomodule 2 achieves goal gradient
From concept to consortium
SiD workshop at SLAC
The SiD detector concept held a workshop at SLAC from 14 to 16 October. This was the first workshop held since the completion of the Detailed Baseline Design document and was an opportunity to consider the next steps in detector development and organisation of the concept. The workshop agenda can be found here. The next phase […]
Industrialising the ILC
US members of the Linear Collider Collaboration make plans for a new stage of industrialisation studies.
With the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR), one stage of design and costing for the ILC is complete. Now, US members of the Linear Collider Collaboration must consider what ILC components the US might contribute—and how they will be produced. By contracting with industry to consider details such as cost and facilities needed, […]
From CERN: CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel prize in physics “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large […]
ILC project is entering next phase
A committee of Japanese scientists recommended the Kitakami mountains in Tohoku, Japan’s northeast region, as a candidate construction site for the International Linear Collider after evaluating it together with the alternate candidate of Sefuri in Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. “It really was a tough process,” said Kiyotomo Kawagoe, co-chair of the ILC site […]
ILC candidate site in Japan announced
The ILC site evaluation committee of Japan announced the result of the assessment on the two candidate sites in Japan in a press conference held at the University of Tokyo on 23 August 2013. As a location, they recommended the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. The search for an appropriate candidate site […]