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We need to talk: ILD checks performance at other Higgs factory proposals than ILC

New detector concept strategy identifies work programme for the near future

| 17 November 2022

One thing is pretty certain: the next big machine in particle physics is most likely going to be an electron-positron “Higgs factory” collider. What is not so certain is which of the different collider options currently being considered will be realised. The ILD collaboration, creator of one of the two detector concepts for the International […]

In the light of new accelerators

Advancing superconducting cavities for present and future projects

| 22 July 2016

At the TTC meeting (TESLA Technology Collaboration meeting) scientists from all over the world came together to present their advances for superconducting radiofrequency cavities and related topics. This summer meeting from 5 to 8 July 2016 was hosted by CEA in Saclay, near Paris in France, where the production of the European XFEL (X-ray free […]

German particle physics community gives “strongest support” to ILC

| 26 May 2016

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 […]

Adapting to change

| 10 March 2016

The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) is a biannual gathering of the heads of major particle physics labs and institutes from around the world for the purpose of sharing news, liaising, and working together to promote global collaboration in our field. The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) has its mandate from ICFA, and the LC […]

ARUP tool shortlisted for prestigious prize

| 11 February 2016

Remember the ingenious civil engineering tool that British consultancy ARUP has developed for CERN’s FCC and that is also being used for site-specific planning of the ILC? That thing where you can play around with shafts, tunnels and rock formations without leaving your desk? It’s been shortlisted for a prestigious award, so keep your fingers […]

Collider facts

| 12 November 2015

In Whistler, British Columbia, some two hundred physicists gathered to the annual Linear Collider Workshop. As the last speaker of the meeting, I tried to summarise the status of various collider options currently under discussion. In particular, I tried to clarify their readiness and timelines. The ILC passed the TDR (Technical Design Report) stage back […]

Crossing technical and cultural borders

EU project E-JADE fosters exchange between European and Japanese researchers

| 28 May 2015

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 […]

Ready for the jump

| 19 March 2015

The LHC’s so-called Run 2 kicks off when first beam circulate in the 27-kilometre tunnel. After a period of getting to know the consolidated and improved LHC, the machine operators think they can deliver first collisions at 13 TeV to the LHC’s experiments in late May or early June. This is a 60% increase in […]

Updating the physics case for the ILC

| 19 March 2015

The physics case of the ILC has been studied intensively for many years, culminating in the physics volume of the Technical Design Report (TDR). It was followed by efforts to compare various machines such as the European Strategy studies and the Snowmass studies. Still, the scientific and political environments surrounding the ILC keep changing. On […]

Back to the future

Technology transfer between FCC and ILC

| 11 December 2014

This tool offers a (very large) set of parameters and geological data such as soil composition, hydrography, environmental and sociological constraints and programmable risk factors data. You play with them – key in a tilt of, say, one percent or move points north or south or put the whole thing deeper underground – and the […]