Sakue Yamada | 15 March 2012The ILC Steering Committee is now considering a new organisation for a linear collider project that includes both the ILC and CLIC programmes, in view of their individual progress and the cooperation between them, and it envisions a merger of physics and detector activities. It is a challenge to create a new mechanism that will satisfy all parties, but we should try hard to find one.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: future, ILC-CLIC collaboration, ILCSC, physics and detectors
Sakue Yamada | 19 January 2012The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design report summarising our effort since 2007. To achieve this goal, coordination between the detector groups and with the Global Design Effort is essential, and we are fulfilling this mission.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: DBD, detailed baseline design, IDAG, ILD, LHC, SiD, Technical Design Report
Michael Peskin | 17 November 2011The ILC Detailed Baseline Design report will contain a chapter that describes the physics opportunities that the ILC will offer. The LHC is bringing us new information about particles in the ILC energy range. But what exactly is the Large Hadron Collider telling us, and what are the implications for the ILC programme? Michael Peskin encourages members of the ILC community to debate this question and contribute to the report.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: DBD, detailed baseline design, Higgs boson, LHC, physics case
Sakue Yamada | 20 October 2011This year's linear collider workshop was a time of fruitful discussion and planning. Key discussions helped shape the near future in the period before the release of the detailed baseline design.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: DBD, LCWS11
Jim Brau | 22 September 2011The groundwork for the Worldwide Study, a global linear collider physics and detector partnership, was laid more than ten years ago. Since then it has been a driving force for coordination and development of physics studies and detector R&D around the world.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: detector R&D, Worldwide Study
Sakue Yamada | 21 July 2011The high-energy physics community is gearing up to learn the latest from the world’s large particle colliders, to be presented at conferences this summer. The reports may guide the future efforts of the ILC community coming after the detector community’s detailed baseline design.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: DBD, ILCSC, LCWS11, Lepton Photon Symposium
Hitoshi Yamamoto | 16 June 2011Hitoshi Yamamoto offers a personal account of his navigation through the chaos brought on by shutdowns of transportation systems, electrical grids and running water immediately following the March earthquake. Amid the confusion, he remained mindful of the work of the ILC, resulting in welcome news for detector research.
Category: Research Director's Report | Tagged: earthquake, Japan, JSPS, KEK
