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
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
