The recently released recommendations of the European Strategy Group discuss Linear Colliders as technologically mature flagship projects which offer a competitive science program in Higgs and Top physics, while not ranking alternative projects beyond the FCC-ee. The next steps for Linear Colliders will be discussed at the LinearCollider@CERN Workshop in early January. by Jenny List, Tatsuya Nakada […]
Forging New Paths for the Future: LCWS 2025 in Valencia
Under the Mediterranean sun, the old town of Valencia, Spain, became a hub of energy and ideas as more than 300 physicists, engineers, and students gathered for the 2025 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS 2025). Hosted by IFIC (CSIC/University of Valencia), the workshop brought together the global community working toward the realisation of a next-generation […]
Japan’s Vision for the Future of Particle Physics
Interview with Tsuyoshi Nakaya, Chairperson, Japan Association of High Energy Physics
Japan’s high-energy physics community is entering a crucial phase as it maps out its long-term vision. Researchers from across the country, working together through the Japan Association of High Energy Physicists (JAHEP), are discussing the next big steps for the field. JAHEP has set up a group to prepare a full report on future projects in […]
LCWS2021- the community focuses on an ILC Pre-Lab as the next step
The 2021 International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders (LCWS2021), arranged by Europe as an online conference with more than 900 registered participants, took place from 15 to 18 March. As earlier conferences in this series it was primarily devoted to the physics, detector, and accelerator studies for the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) and the International […]
From KEK: Regarding the “Assessment of the revised International Linear Collider Project”
We would like to express our gratitude to the review committee of the revised International Linear Collider (ILC) project of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) for their prompt and detailed evaluation. We here present our opinions in response to the final report published by the Science Council of Japan. The SCJ appreciated the scientific […]
LCWS2018: preparing for ILC realisation
The 2018 Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS2018) will be held on the campus of the University of Texas, Arlington on 22-26 October. This is the latest in the long series of linear collider workshops, dating back to Saariselkae, Finland, in 1991. The community has met numerous times over the past 27 years, but never with the level […]
Towards the realization of the International Linear Collider, an update
The 2018 Asian Linear Collider Workshop (ALCW2018) is being held in Fukuoka, Japan from 28 May to 1 June. At the meeting a statement was unanimously endorsed stressing the scientific importance of the ILC and urging the Japanese government to declare interest in hosting the project. A decision is now urgent because the European Strategy Group, […]
Successful visit to Europe: one big step for ILC realisation
“In short, it was a big success,” said Satoru Yamashita, project professor at the University of Tokyo, who was a member of a Japanese delegation that visited France and Germany in early January this year. The Japanese delegation consisted of 18 persons – Diet members, government officials, industry leaders, and scientists – and toured two […]
Preparing for the update
The Linear Collider (LC) activities world-wide are entering a defining two years. The overall picture is quite clear in the short term. The European Strategy Update process has defined its organisation and timescale in more detail, expecting input documents to be submitted by the end of 2018. On the ILC side we are expecting clarifying […]
German particle physics community gives “strongest support” to ILC
It may feel like only yesterday that the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics was adopted, but preparations for a new one, planned for 2018/19, are already underway. Germany has now published its first conclusions from a workshop on future electron-positron colliders that are very supportive of the ILC. The German community of […]