Sachio Komamiya | 24 December 2020Sachio Komamiya, former chair of Linear Collider Board and professor at Waseda University in Japan, pays tribute to his teacher and mentor Masatoshi Koshiba, Nobel laureate and strong advocate of the ILC, who died in November at the age of 94.
Sakue Yamada | 24 December 2020Sakue Yamada, former Research Director at Global Design Effort, looks back on his days with the late Masatoshi Koshiba, who started the e+e- collider physics effort in Japan.
Geoffrey Taylor | 25 September 2020Geoffrey Taylor, the current chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators ICFA, explains why ICFA has set up the International Development Team (IDT) and what it will do.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ICFA, ILC, Japan, Pre-Lab
25 September 2020The International Committee for Future Accelerators announced the structure and the team members of the ILC International Development Team, to make the project one step forward.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ICFA, IDT, ILC, Japan, KEK, Pre-Lab
1 November 2019Scientists gathering in Sendai, Japan, for a scientific conference about a possible future particle physics project in Japan reconfirm the scientific importance of the ILC and express their commitment to make the ILC a success.
Rickard Ström | 14 March 2019The annual workshop of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) attracted more than 200 participants to CERN between 21 and 25 January. The annual workshop summarised the work done in 2018, including the completion of a project implementation plan. "The CLIC project offers a cost-effective and innovative technology and is ready to proceed towards construction with a Technical Design Report. Following the technology-driven timeline CLIC would realise electron-positron collisions at 380 GeV as soon as 2035," Steinar Stapnes, CLIC project leader, said. Read the full report.
Category: Feature | Tagged: CLIC, CLIC workshop
21 December 2018This is a translation of the executive summary of the Science Council of Japan's report, released on 19 December 2018. The translation was not issued by SCJ but was done by researchers in Japan.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ILC hosting, MEXT, report, Review Committee, SCJ
21 December 2018Two political groups, the Federation of Diet Members for the ILC and the Liaison Committee for Realizing the ILC, released a joint message in response to the SCJ's final report, reaffirming their commitment to push forward the ILC in Japan and to persuade the Japanese government to make a positive decision by March next year.
Category: Feature | Tagged: Federation of Diet members, ILC hosting, Japan
Rika Takahashi | 4 October 2018Four Nobel laureates in Physics Sheldon Glashow, Barry Barish, Masatoshi Koshiba and Yoshinori Osumi publicly support the ILC project in a symposium held at the University of Tokyo last August. The ILC is “absolutely essential,” they said, and not just for particle physics.
Category: Feature | Tagged: ILC site, Japan, LIGO, Nobel prize