Qian Pan | 2 August 2012A group of Chinese scientists, headed by Xuejun Jia from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently finished the design of the remote handling of the ILC positron target. The target forms part of the positron source and is the place where positrons are produced and then accelerated before they collide with their antiparticles, the electrons.
Category: Feature | Tagged: China, positron source, positron target, remote handling
19 July 2012The International Linear Collider Steering Committee and the International Committee for Future Accelerators met recently in Melbourne in conjunction with ICHEP2012. ICFA chair and Fermilab Director Pier Oddone reports in his Director's Corner in the 17 July issue of Fermilab Today on the new organisation of the linear collider efforts, the timelines and responsibilities. There's also a call for nominees for the new Linear Collider Board.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ICFA, ILCSC
Rika Takahashi | 12 July 2012On 10 July, governors, industrial leaders, and local officials of Japan’s northeastern area got together to attend a general meeting of the Tohoku Advanced Science and Technology Study Group. In the northeastern part of Japan, or Tohoku, activities towards inviting the ILC to the area has been intensified ever since the ILC was positioned as one of the promising means to recover from the disastrous earthquake occurred last year.
Category: Feature | Tagged: economic impact, ILC site, Japan, Tohoku
5 July 2012This is a small collection of interesting links to background information, facts, figures and international sites all about the Higgs. It makes no attempt to be comprehensive, but readers are encouraged to use the commenting function to add their favourite sites. From CERN: A big collection of background texts, videos and interviews Ten fun and little-known facts about the Higgs from symmetry magazine Peter Higgs in the spotlight: an exclusive interview by physics world Fermilab Higgs FAQs Fermilab video of Don Lincoln explaining the mechanism Higgs background information in German from www.weltmaschine.de Big questions in Japanese Higgs pages in French on lhc-france.fr/higgs Linear Collider Higgs talk at ICHEP Live blogging from ICHEP and an archive of blog posts from the CERN seminar on www.quantumdiaries.org And from our own ILC NewsLine: Scientific justification for the ILC Articulating the physics case for the ILC Is the Higgs enough? The impact of ILC detector R&D Higgs makes for exotic couples
Jonathan Bagger | 5 July 2012The Higgs is Different, says Jonathan Bagger, a theoretical physicist and chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee ILCSC. It has no spin, it fills the vacuum, but most importantly, it opens the door to a new range of questions. Questions which a linear collider with its clean and controlled collisions could help answer.
Category: Feature | Tagged: dark energy, extra dimensions, grand unification, Higgs, Higgs factory, ILC, ILCSC, supersymmetry
Barbara Warmbein | 5 July 2012The LHC experiments are definitely homing in on a Higgs boson in a mass region somewhere around 126 GeV. Further studies and more data from the LHC will tell us more about what it is that they have found, but only a linear collider will be able to tell without prejudice whether it’s a Standard Model Higgs (or not) and determine its mass with a precision down to about 60 MeV. Here’s how.
Category: Feature | Tagged: decay mode, Higgs, ILC, ILD, LHC, particle flow, SiD
21 June 2012The International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) has now taken the next significant step towards unification of the ILC Global Design Effort and the Compact Linear Collider organisation. It has appointed CERN's Lyn Evans to be the overall leader for the combined linear collider programmes. ICFA chair Pier Oddone comments.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ICFA, Linear Collider
21 June 2012The international effort to design the world’s next major particle collider has a new leader. On 20 May 2012, the International Committee for Future Accelerators announced the appointment of CERN's Lyn Evans as the new Linear Collider Director. Evans is the first to hold the new position, which will lead the Linear Collider organisation created to bring two existing large-scale linear collider programmes under one governance. He will be based at CERN.
Category: Feature | Tagged: CLIC, ICFA, ILC, Linear Collider
Rika Takahashi | 14 June 2012Particle cartoons, enticing images, animations and lots and lots of information – that’s what a new website dedicated to the ILC in Japan offers its visitors to help them learn more about the ILC and particle physics. Created by the Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology, it went live on Monday this week.
Category: Feature | Tagged: AAA, Japan, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, website
7 June 2012Alongside a story on muons—the short-lived cousins of the electron— symmetry magazine in its June 2012 issue features a silent movie about the Standard Model of Particle Physics. See quarks dancing, the Higgs entering the scene and get your own answer to the question mark at the end!
Category: Feature | Tagged: muon, Standard Model
