Rika Takahashi | 25 June 2025What does a collider have in common with a hot bowl of soup? A simple yet striking phrase won the AAA Award in a Japan-wide contest to create ideas that inspire people to bring the ILC to Japan. The winning words help make one of the world’s most ambitious science projects feel closer and more personal.
Barbara Warmbein | 18 May 2023When a camera crew descends on a research lab, places that scientists see every day can suddenly appear totally different. When WG3 leader Jenny List showed the APS TV team and presenter Nico Gutjahr around the German lab DESY, a control room became the setting for a one-on-one interview and the accelerator module test facility turned into an interactive classroom. Here are some impressions from the video shoot for the latest ILC video. All images: Joseph Piergrossi, DESY
Category: Image of the week | Tagged: APS, ILC video, sustainability
17 August 2022The workshop pictures that used to be the norm are finally back! With 700 attendees, the lively face-to-face discussion returned to the community. Here are some photos from Snowmass Workshop by Keita Yumino, KEK.
Image : Nobuko Kobayashi | 22 September 2016Junior high-school students Kotomi Sato and Momoyo Sugawara, members of the “ILC club,” visited CERN last August with three other students to learn more about life in a big international science laboratory. They were invited to give a short debriefing during a panel discussion at an ILC symposium held on 10 September in Oshu city, where both girls said that they thought particle scientists are 'cool'! Sato has always loved science and she is determined to become a researcher at the ILC. Sugawara met many people in Geneva who greeted her in Japanese, and she felt very happy about it. "I want to study English harder," she said, "to make foreign people comfortable if the ILC is being built in my neighborhood." Read also "Five Iwate junior high students return from a fulfilling study trip abroad," an article published on 10 August in the Iwate Nippo.
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 22 July 2016The top quark is one of the pillars of the physics topics that linear colliders address. From 6 to 9 July 2016, a dedicated workshop on top physics at the lepton colliders was held at KEK.
Category: Image of the week | Tagged: KEK, physics, top quark
7 July 2016The anniversary of the announcement of the Higgs discovery (which happened on 4 July 2012) was hard to miss at CERN this year. People braced waiting times of more than 30 minutes to have a taste of discovery: the specially created Higgs pizza! Two shoots of asparagus (proton beams) collide in the middle of the pizza to create a Higgs boson that then decays. For carnivores, the chorizo Higgs decays into two two high-energy photons made of salami alongside some charged ham and neutral olive particles; vegetarians ate the decay of a tomato Higgs into four pepper muons.
Category: Image of the week | Tagged: CERN, Higgs, pizza
