A 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 […]
ILC positron target benefits from Chinese technology
From Fermilab Today: ICFA and ILCSC in Melbourne
The vision to invite the ILC laid out
On 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 […]
#Higgs on the web
This 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 […]
The Higgs is Different
Theoretical physicist and ILCSC chair Jonathan Bagger explains how
If yesterday’s newly discovered particle turns out to be the Higgs boson, as many think it might, it will be a landmark accomplishment for physics. Every other fundamental particle discovered to date – the quarks, leptons and gauge bosons of the standard model – has spin, an intrinsically quantum mechanical property that determines its fate. […]
Make no assumptions
A linear collider would complete the picture
Collisions in the LHC are like fireworks. At energies no other particle collider has ever reached, protons smash into protons and produce such exciting particles as the Higgs boson. The catch: many, many things go on at these collisions, and filtering out the interesting ones is possible, but hard. What is more, LHC physicists can […]
From Fermilab Today: ICFA appoints Lyn Evans as first Linear Collider Director
The 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.
From ICFA : Lyn Evans appointed as Linear Collider Director
The 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 […]
New ILC website launched in Japan
On Monday 11 June, Japan’s Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA) launched a new website where site visitors can get all the information related to the ILC in Japanese. KEK, Japan’s high-energy physics laboratory, is the Japanese centre of ILC R&D, however KEK’s website is not the most convenient place to learn about the ILC. […]