An area known for high-tech gadgets and innovation will soon be home to an advanced superconducting X-ray laser that stretches 3 miles in length from the beginning of the accelerator to the end of the experimental halls, built by a collaboration of national laboratories. On January 19, the first section of the machine’s new accelerator […]
From SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Superconducting X-Ray Laser Takes Shape in Silicon Valley
Changes in LCC and in the US regarding ILC
The current Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) reports to the Linear Collider Board (LCB), which in turns reports to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). At previous ICFA meetings the mandate of the current LCC was extended to the end of 2016 and at its February 2016 meeting ICFA formed a committee, consisting of the […]
In the light of new accelerators
Advancing superconducting cavities for present and future projects
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 […]
Rethinking the linear collider in view of the bump
The 2016 ECFA Linear Collider Workshop took place in the beautiful Spanish city of Santander from 30 May to 5 June. It brought together more than 200 experimentalists, theorists and machine builders to discuss the latest developments in linear-collider physics. The Director General of KEK, Masanori Yamauchi, summarised the present status of discussion in Japan concerning […]
National Lab Day
Fermilab, SLAC, JLab, Brookhaven, Argonne… these are all major players in particle physics and accelerator R&D. They are also the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) “national labs”. All national research labs came to Washington, D.C. on 20 April to show their work to members of Congress and other visitors. Pictured is Dick Durbin, Illinois senator, giving his address. DOE has […]
Directors from major particle physics labs meet Japanese journalists
On 26 February, members of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) gathered in a conference room in Tokyo, Japan, for the press conference. Joachim Mnich, Research Director at DESY and the current chair of ICFA, Nigel Lockyer, Director of Fermilab, U.S., Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Masanori Yamauchi, Director-General of KEK sat at […]
Study on technical feasibility
Since 2014, the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been conducting studies to gather information to decide whether Japan is interested in hosting the ILC. The summary report of the ILC Advisory Panel set up by MEXT for this purpose was outlined in the last edition of NewsLine. In addition […]
Back in the beam
After nearly a year of campaign and some 10 weeks of data taking in various beams at CERN and at DESY, the detector layers, absorbers, support structures and electronics of several calorimeter prototypes for a future ILC detector are back in crates and on their way to DESY and other labs in Germany, Japan and the […]
Why we need the ILC now #mylinearcollider
Hasan Padamsee is a physicist at Fermilab, USA. Watch him explain why he thinks whe should build the ILC now! The Linear Collider Collaboration is actively reaching out to its collaborators and supporters to participate in the #mylinearcollider video campaign. The series of short, informal videos (435 posted online to date) is posted on our […]