Now we are making the final spurt to complete Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). Of its two volumes, the physics volume describing the physics possibilities of the ILC was drafted by an author group convened by Michael Peskin in July and is now open for reading in the community. The draft of the other volume […]
In front of the door to a new world
Since the big news of the discovery of Higgs-like particle at LHC, we have been talking about it with enthusiasm a lot and at various occasions. I’m sure every particle physicist has been asked questions from families, friends or neighbours what the discovery means. The news stimulated big excitement about the Higgs particle in the […]
Encouraging news from CERN
We at the ILC Research Directorate are all thrilled with the announcement from CERN this week that a Higgs-like particle has been discovered. The Higgs particle has been a target of our experiments for over decades, and the affirming news that has finally arrived from the LHC is a great step forward. I wish to […]
Organising the post-2012 era
Last week the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced that Lyn Evans has been selected as the next Linear Collider Director to lead the new Linear Collider Organisation being created to bring the two linear collider programmes under one governance. The end of the GDE and Research Director era, with the completion of the […]
Some highlights from the KILC12 workshop
A workshop organised by the Asian Committee on Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) was held in Daegu, Korea from 23 to 27 April 2012. The central emphasis of this workshop was the final discussions of the technical systems for the ILC, before we launch full-fledged into producing the Technical Design […]
Announcement
SiD Detector Concept Workshop at SLAC The SiD Detector Concept for the ILC will hold its next workshop at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 21-23 August 2012. The main purpose of the workshop will be to review the first draft of the SiD Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) due to be completed by December 2012. It will […]
Marking our progress – Detailed Baseline Design report
During the past five years the physics and detector community has made much progress for establishing capable detector designs for the ILC. These achievements are to be summarised in the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD) by the end of this year. The DBD will make a solid milestone, marking the end of the Letter-of-Intent period […]
Design report in the making: drafting the DBD
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
Articulating the physics case for the ILC
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Michael Peskin, convener of the Physics Common Task Group and of the group preparing the physics chapter of the Detailed Baseline Design report.
The Global Design Effort (GDE) has promised to submit the ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012. To accompany this document, the physics and detector community is preparing the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). That report will discuss the physics measurements to be carried out at the ILC, present the detailed technical designs […]
Progress made during LCWS11 in Granada
In Granada, Spain from 26-30 September, LCWS11 was held jointly between ILC and CLIC for the second time following the Geneva workshop last year. Regarding ILC physics and detector activity, good progress was made and a number of steps were taken for the completion of the detailed baseline design report (DBD). There were many meetings […]