A summer intern at Jefferson Laboratory is excited about the ILC – and he’s got the tattoo to prove it.
From a wave function equation to a CERN bubble chamber image, the tattoos physics enthusiasts sport are wide-ranging. But is the ILC represented? Thanks to Gabriel Palacios, a physics engineering student who interned at Jefferson Lab (US) this summer, it is. Palacios, who currently studies at Mexico City’s Metropolitan Autonomous University, had the ILC accelerator […]
The Compact Linear Collider and International Linear Collider will accelerate particles and create collisions in different ways. Nonetheless, the detector concepts under development share many commonalities. CERN physicist Dominik Dannheim explains that CLIC detector plans are adaptations of the ILC detector designs with a few select modifications. “When we started several years ago, we did […]
A new version of the ILC animation is released
What will the ILC look like? How big is its linear accelerator? How would you describe a particle collision? The new ILC animation “The ILC in 2 minutes” helps explain and schematise the ILC operation. This longer version now includes the latest machine and detector design and also comes with optional sound and various languages […]
International Linear Collider publishes its Technical Design Report
Tokyo, Geneva, Chicago – 12 June 2013. A five-volume report containing the blueprint for a future particle physics project, the International Linear Collider (ILC), was published today. In three consecutive ceremonies in Asia, Europe and the Americas, the authors of the Technical Design Report for the International Linear Collider, a next-generation particle collider to complement […]
On 15 March, scientists working on the Quantum Beam Technology Program at KEK’s superconducting RF test facility (STF) confirmed the successful generation of X-rays using Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) with superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) acceleration technology. This is the world’s first successful implementation of ICS X-ray sources with SCRF technology. The Quantum Beam Technology Program is […]
12 June 2013 is a very special day for the ILC community. We are organising a global event, starting in Tokyo, moving to CERN and finally in Fermilab – to celebrate the publication of the Technical Design Report. We have invited VIPs from across the fields of politics, research funding, science and education to hear talks on […]
ILC and CLIC unite in the Linear Collider Collaboration, a new global organisation to advance the global development work for next-generation particle collider
Vancouver, 21 February 2013. The two most mature future particle physics projects, the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC), have formed an official organisational partnership today. As the newly founded Linear Collider Collaboration, they will coordinate and advance the global development work for the linear collider, a global project to […]
Some T-shirts lose their lives in the wash, but their memories live on. At a meeting in Snowmass, US, in August 2005, Norman Graf was seen wearing a simple white t-shirt asking “got ilc?” (Not yet, Norm) And Nick Walker sported a yellow shirt that said “Summer In Snowmass – Some Are Not.”). Those who […]