The question how great the (ILC tunnel’s) Great Wall needs to be was answered for the Kamaboko tunnel design at the Kitakami site by the final decision of the Change Management Board to a Change Request (ILC-CR-0012) for the 25-kilometre linear-accelerator (linac) sections of the ILC. The shield wall in the ‘Kamaboko’ shape tunnel , […]
Spain and Japan strengthen industrial collaboration toward the ILC
Spain and Japan have taken an important step to strengthen their cooperation. On 13 May, a workshop called “Collaboration Opportunities on Fusion and Accelerator Technologies and Projects between Spanish and Japanese Organizations” was held at the Embassy of Spain in Tokyo. This workshop was jointly hosted by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), the Spanish […]
Cool sensors: new silicon detectors have their fridges built in
How 3D printing could get to the heart of the ILC detectors
Riding the wave of progress in semi-conductor industry, pixel vertex detectors have improved their performance dramatically over the last decades. It is now possible to build ultra-thin devices with a spatial resolution of several microns, while maintaining a read-out speed and power- consumption that is adequate for lepton collider experiments such as the ILC. Several […]
Big science needs international partnership
International Linear Collider is, as its name suggests, is being discussed as an international project, which involves many countries around the world. As reported in the 3 March issue of LC NewsLine, US-Japan Political Leader’s Forum on Science and Technology was held in Washington D.C., USA, marking a important milestone to move the ILC project forward. […]
Directors from major particle physics labs meet Japanese journalists
On 26 February, members of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) gathered in a conference room in Tokyo, Japan, for the press conference. Joachim Mnich, Research Director at DESY and the current chair of ICFA, Nigel Lockyer, Director of Fermilab, U.S., Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Masanori Yamauchi, Director-General of KEK sat at […]
Unplugged: new magnet concept could lower CLIC’s power bill
Scientific workshops don’t really need ice breakers, but the CLIC workshop, held from 18 to 22 January at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, had one nevertheless. Coinciding with the first day of the workshop, CERN’s new Director-General Fabiola Gianotti gave her inaugural address to the lab, presenting CERN’s high-energy physics plans for the coming years and […]
Here’s your physics case, once and for all
Dear colleagues, this one is for you. All those paper writing thesis completing report submitting physicists out there: here comes a new central paper for your list of references and your reading list. It provides a comprehensive physics case for the e+e- linear collider and puts all the topics and ideas from theory, collider searches, […]
A dream comes true
More than a decade before becoming Director of the newly forming Global Design Effort (GDE) for the ILC in 2005, I took on the task of directing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project. Like the ILC, LIGO was an incredibly challenging project with potentially a fantastic scientific payoff. Of course, we had our critics […]
Stamp of approval
The International Linear Collider has warm supporters around the world. Especially in its potential future home in the Kitakami region of northern Japan, banners, posters, flags, pennants and buntings show the region’s enthusiasm for the project, from local government to corner shop. We are often asked for permission to use the ILC logo for such […]
Family reunion of many generations of TESLA technology
Experts on superconducting radiofrequency technologies (SRF) from all over the world came to SLAC, USA, from 1 to 4 December to the Tesla Technology Collaboration (TTC) meeting. It was the very first TTC Meeting for SLAC to host and the lab used the opportunity to not only invite experts to their lab but also encouraged […]