Dear Colleagues, We invite you to sign the Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report of the ILC detectors, which now exists as a nearly final draft. It summarises the R&D achievements of the ILC Letter-of-Intent period. The contents reflect the many contributions of very many collaborators. The draft is now open to the community under this address. […]
Members of new Linear Collider Board announced
Pier Oddone, the Chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced yesterday the membership of the new Linear Collider Board (LCB), which as a sub-panel of ICFA will promote and oversee the development of a linear collider and its detectors as a world-wide collaborative project. The recently appointed Linear Collider Director, Lyn Evans, […]
Press Release: International Linear Collider completes draft of its design report
Handover ceremony on 15 December in Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, 15 December. The draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the planned International Linear Collider ILC was handed over to Jonathan Bagger, the chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), at an official ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, on 15 December. This draft is the product of many years of research and […]
Cryo conveyor belt
Industrial study looks at serial production of cryomodules
An industrial study commissioned by the Global Design Effort in collaboration with experts from CERN gives a clearer picture of how cryomodules for the ILC could be mass-produced by industry. The study, whose results were recently presented at a meeting between accelerator experts from different labs. A similar study has looked at cavity serial production. […]
From Fermilab Today: This week’s FALC meeting
From symmetry magazine: What else could the Higgs be?
Viewpoint: Charting the future of European particle physics
From CERN Courier: Tatsuya Nakada considers what the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics needs to address.
From CERN Bulletin: CLIC’s three-step plan
Grassroots master plan includes a Higgs factory
Particle physics community from Europe and beyond discusses future strategy
When scientists make plans or want to show the results of their work, they write a paper. Nearly 170 such papers recently landed on the desks of the members of the European Strategy Preparatory Group, a part of the European Strategy Group that is charged by the CERN Council to come up with recommendations for […]
A trip down main linac lane
There aren’t many people in the world who can say of themselves that they have walked the whole length of the ILC’s accelerator tunnels and stood in the detector cavern looking up at the ILC detector. In fact, there’s probably only one person in the world who has done all this: Benno List. He is […]