The political groups released a joint message in response to the final report of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), 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. We wish to express our sincere gratitude for the intensive […]
Nobel laureates speak for the ILC
It really was a “hot” day. In 2018 so far, Tokyo had 67 days of temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, and 5 August recorded the highest temperature of 34.1 degrees. Despite such a terribly hot weather, Kiin-do Hall at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo was crowded with about 1000 enthusiastic spectators who gathered for the ILC […]
New CALICE calorimeter sees beam
Particle physics will always need calorimeters, so particle physicists are always trying to optimise, tweak and update their calorimeter systems for the best possible measurements. The CALICE collaboration plays a leading role in this, and their most recent prototype for a hadronic calorimeter has just been completed and is now at CERN for a round […]
From CERN Courier: High-gradient X-band technology: from TeV colliders to light sources and more
Things 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 […]
2018, a milestone year for Higgs factories in Asia
The Higgs particle, cornerstone of the Standard Model (SM) and predicted 50 years ago was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on 4 July 2012. In fact, this extremely important particle has been searched intensively by circular electron positron colliders such as LEP-II at the end of the nineties at CERN, after SLC […]
The CLIC annual workshop highlights technology maturity and increased use ahead of the European Strategy update
Report from the CLIC workshop
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) workshop is the main annual gathering of the CLIC accelerator and detector communities, and this year attracted more than 220 participants to CERN between 22 and 26 January. This meeting focused on preparations for the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. […]
Successful visit to Europe: one big step for ILC realisation
“In short, it was a big success,” said Satoru Yamashita, project professor at the University of Tokyo, who was a member of a Japanese delegation that visited France and Germany in early January this year. The Japanese delegation consisted of 18 persons – Diet members, government officials, industry leaders, and scientists – and toured two […]
Congratulations, Barry!
Our colleague, Barry Barish, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for his leadership role in the direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015. Following his leadership on LIGO from 1994 through 2005 for which the Prize was awarded, Barry led the ILC community as Director of the Global […]
Working together on Linear Collider software tools
Within the Linear Collider community there is a long tradition of sharing the core software tools needed for detector studies and physics benchmarking. A large software suite is required to cover the whole chain from event generation and subsequent simulation of particles in the detector to full event reconstruction and physics interpretation. Constantly improving and […]
Pandora: opening the box for neutrino experiments
Pattern 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. A software development kit […]