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
31 May 2018Things that start out in fundamental research quite regularly find their way into fields other than high energy physics. Take the Compact Linear Collider study CLIC, for example. CLIC's unique requirements have led to the development of a new high-gradient "X-band" acceleration technology that is attracting the interest of researchers working at light sources, in the medical sector and even art museums.
Category: Feature | Tagged: beam-power, CLIC, high gradient, light source, technology transfer, X-band
Jie Gao | 1 March 2018The year 2018 will indeed be a milestone year for both the International Linear Collider ILC and the Circular Electron Positron Collider in China, two complementary Higgs factories. Gao Jie, linear collider researcher and chair of the Asia Linear Collider Steering Committee proposes a historical recall of the two projects.
| 1 February 2018A Japanese delegation of 18 persons – Diet members, government officials, industry leaders, and scientists – toured France and Germany in a four-day visit seeking to strengthen relationships towards ILC realisation. Essential view points from the two countries on investment and timescale were clarified and confirmed with the delegation. The importance to include the ILC into the next European strategy for particle physics was also reaffirmed.
Category: Feature, Uncategorized | Tagged: Asia, Europe, European Strategy for Particle Physics, ILC, Japan
Rickard Ström and Aidan Robson | 1 February 2018Meeting under the influence: at this year's CLIC workshop, held last week at CERN, participants kicked off preparations for the upcoming update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The project also showed its own influence on other projects from LHC upgrades to light sources, plus of course reports from the accelerator and detector developers about latest results from the various challenging R&D projects.
Category: Feature | Tagged: CLEAR, CLIC, HL-LHC
Lucie Linssen and Andre Sailer | 14 December 2017In order to understand particles you need the right software. Analysing the functionality of your detector, predicting how particles interact and how they move through the detector parts and reconstructing what happened during a collision all depend on the right software. This software isn’t available in app or play stores – if you want it, you have to write it yourself. The linear collider community has recently brought its software up to scratch.
Category: Feature | Tagged: AIDA-2020, CERN, DESY, Github, Glasgow, KEK, software development, Uni Tokyo
Jim Brau | 14 December 2017This year’s Nobel Prize was awarded to our colleague, Barry Barish, a former, prominent leader of the linear collider community for many years. Associate Director for Physics and Detectors Jim Brau reports on Barry Barish’s role in the first direct detection of gravitational waves and managing large science projects.
Category: Feature | Tagged: Barry Barish, GDE, gravitational waves, history, LIGO, Technical Design Report
Barbara Warmbein | 16 February 2017Pattern recognition rules in particle physics. When particles collide, many things happen at the same time and in a very fast sequence within fractions of a second. In order to tell everyday events from rare ones, particle physicists use pattern recognition software to quickly scan and classify pictures from the collisions.
Category: Feature | Tagged: AIDA-2020, algorithms, ILD, MicroBooNE, neutrinos, Pandora, pattern recognition
