As the summer conferences are kicking off, providing more and more complete 8 TeV LHC (Large Hadron Collider) results and the very first glimpses of 13 TeV data, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop […]
Crossing technical and cultural borders
EU project E-JADE fosters exchange between European and Japanese researchers
Oskar Hartbrich is a PhD student who specialises in developing state-of-the art calorimeters for future ILC detectors. He is also a specialist for full detectors simulations, and he has just spent nine weeks in Japan getting even deeper into this role, sitting side by side with other experts from Tokyo and Shinshu universities to further […]
CLICing into action
CLIC is one of the potential follow-up projects to the LHC, alongside the International Linear Collider and the Future Circular Collider studies. Instead of smashing protons into protons, it would collide electrons with their antiparticles, the positrons. And instead of bending the particles around a ring, CLIC would be a 50-kilomtre-long straight line using a […]
Say “CLIC”!
The CLIC annual workshop, held at CERN from 26 to 30 January, did not only bring together nearly 300 accelerator and detectors experts to discuss the next stages of the project – it also featured a session on possible applications from CLIC technology, which drew experts from other fields such as light sources, medical research […]
Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 coming soon
As LC NewsLine reported in its 8-January issue, the Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 (ALCW2015) will take place at KEK from 20 – 24 April. The workshop will be devoted to accelerator, physics and detector aspects of future high energy electron-positron linear colliders. This workshop is the first Asian regional workshop since the LCC started […]
A year with the ILC
At this time in the calendar it is difficult to avoid the temptation to look back at the past year and ahead to the upcoming one. I have proved unable to successfully fight that impulse so the first Directors Corner of 2015 involves some personal observations and conjectures both past and future. For the ILC, […]
Register now for a different and fun linear collider meeting
International conferences and workshops related to the linear collider are traditionally held twice a year: one global meeting, and another regional one. Next April, a new style of Asian regional linear collider workshop will be held in Tsukuba and Tokyo, Japan. The Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 (ALCW2015) will take place from 20 to 24 […]
A successful Linear Collider workshop in Belgrade – and planning the main LC workshops in 2015
The yearly international Linear Collider Workshop took place from 6 to 10 October 2014 in Belgrade, organised by the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences. The workshop gathered researchers from Europe, Asia and America primarily involved in the linear collider projects ILC and CLIC. Approximately 200 participants took part from 84 institutions in 21 countries. The […]
CERN-KEK offices established
CERN and KEK have a long history of collaboration. An agreement signed at KEK on 21 November puts this on even firmer ground: both labs will establish CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative effort on accelerator R&D and construction projects of mutual interest.. There are a number of key projects that fall into this category: the […]
Challenges and goals for the LCWS14 in Belgrade 6-10 October
As the summer conferences are taking place, providing – we hope – further physics guidance for us, it is also time to start thinking about the autumn linear collider programme. The highlight for the linear collider community is the yearly international Linear Collider Workshop which in 2014 will take place from 6 to 10 October […]