You cannot miss that there was a big linear collider meeting last week: the Director’s Corner gives a summary of results and the Feature highlights a key decision taken during the workshop. Here are some visual impressions of the week, including from the Japanese-Spanish industrial forum on accelerator technologies and advanced detector instrumentation, the opening […]
Coming up: the ECFA Linear Collider Workshop
In a global collaboration most of the personal interactions take place electronically, so our bi-annual linear collider workshops take on extra significance as one of the few opportunities to provide high-bandwidth (face-to-face) communication. For the accelerator community the upcoming Santander Workshop will enable progress in the ILC design to be both examined and where appropriate […]
KEK changes organisational structure towards realisation of the ILC
With the future in mind, Japan’s High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation, KEK has made a change to its organisational structure regarding the ILC project. By doing so, KEK is getting ready for the “green light” from Japanese government. “The main purpose of this change is to make the functions and roles clearer,” said Masanori Yamauchi, […]
Driving cooperation projects forward
The 38th US-Japan HEP meeting
On 4 and 5 April last week, during the peak of the cherry blossoms in Japan, I attended the 38th US-Japan Joint Committee for High Energy Physics meeting at the KEK laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan as part of the US delegation. These metings happen annually and the location alternates between Japan and the US. The […]
CLIC experts meet at CERN
Sometimes even linear-collider experts make semi circles, especially when you have to squeeze more than 200 participants into one picture (and it’s raining). The CLIC workshop was held at CERN from 18 to 22 January. Get the latest on the Compact Linear Collider Study in a future issue of LC NewsLine.
Higgs found at DESY
The German research centre DESY opened its doors to the public on 7 November, a day now known as DESY DAY. More than 18000 visitors came to see real accelerators, braving long queues and Hamburg drizzle to walk through parts of the European XFEL, PETRA or HERA accelerators, to visit DESY’s workshops and partner labs […]
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, […]
SRF Technology getting ready for the ILC: A Report from Whistler
The Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS2015) will be held, at Whistler, BC, Canada, in November, this year. The 17th International Conference on RF Superconductivity (SRF2015) was held in the same place from 13 to 18, September, just prior to the LCWS. We would thank TRIUMF hosting two major conference/workshop events at the nicest village surrounded by […]
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, […]
First editions
The design is clunky, but the faces look familiar: the very first issue of NewsLine was published on 18 August 2005. It had lots of live coverage from the meeting in Snowmass that more or less officially started a global R&D project for the International Linear Collider. It made scientists from different collider and R&D […]