Do you know a linear collider enthusiast and would you like to surprise him or her with a gift? Or are you a linear collider enthusiast and as such too busy to go gift shopping? Then agonise no more. We’ve done some extensive research and proudly present a list of some of the best linear-collider-related […]
Future accelerator scientists’ fulfilling twelve days
Counting down to the ski season, still off-season Whistler, in British Columbia, Canada, was an ideal place for student to concentrate on the study for the 9th International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders. This school was organised by the Linear Collider Collaboration and the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel, and hosted by Canadian national laboratory TRIUMF. […]
Linear Collider Collaboration published Progress Report for the ILC
The Linear Collider Collaboration is pleased to announced the official release of the International Linear Collider Progress Report. The ILC Progress Report is a document outlining the technical progress after the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR) in 2013. It contains the information regarding the progress in civil engineering studies, accelerator hardware design/development updates, […]
From KEK: KEK and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a Project Arrangement concerning high energy physics.
On October 6, 2015, KEK and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) signed a Project Arrangement concerning high energy physics. A signing ceremony was held at the American Ambassador’s Residence in the presence of H.E. Ms. Caroline Kennedy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of U.S.A and H.E. Mr. Hakubun Shimomura, then Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The history of […]
And vertically down it goes
New vertical shaft for the ILC experimental area on the Kitakami side
One of the major changes on the ILC design laid out in the Technical Design Report (TDR) that is ongoing right now is a layout change of the experimental hall complex. A vertical shaft connecting the underground experimental hall to the buildings above ground will be added to the original plans. This change request was […]
Here’s one we made earlier
In a large surface building around the corner from the LHC experiment LHCb at CERN, a group of around 100 researchers is hoping to detect dark matter particles by pointing a superconducting magnet at the sun. The CAST project’s magnet – a former test magnet from the LHC – is equipped with an X-ray telescope […]
Expert puts report into context
Satoru Yamashita is professor for particle physics at the University of Tokyo. He is also the chair of the ILC Strategy Council of Japan and as such acts as go-between, interpreter and commentator between worlds. He is familiar with the world of science ministries, in particular the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and […]
And Still They Will Collide
Is the beam delivery system delivering? Ten years ago, at the Global Design Effort’s formative meeting in Snowmass, Colorado, ILC communicator Perrine Royole-Degieux interviewed Phil Burrows, then professor at Queen Mary University of London, about the beam delivery system. How has the home straight where the particle bunches get squeezed, focused and brought to collision, […]
The Big Milestone Timeline
Japan’s expert panel for the ILC has published its summary report
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has released on 5 August its summary report of the discussions by the expert panel (ILC Advisory Panel) to investigate various issues regarding the ILC. The panel was established in May last year, with two subcommittees: one, the ILC particle & nuclear physics subcommittee, to investigate […]