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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 […]

LCWS2021- the community focuses on an ILC Pre-Lab as the next step

| 19 April 2021

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 […]

ILC250 Higgs factory: ready for launch!

| 1 March 2018

The world of particle physics changed in 2012. Following decades of experimental searches and analysis, the scalar particle thought to be responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, the Higgs boson, was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN. Now that we know of the existence and mass of the Higgs boson, […]

Le roi est mort, vive le roi ! (*)

| 4 April 2013

The Global Design Effort (GDE) has successfully completed the R&D programme outlined back in 2006, and with the Technical Design Report (TDR) effectively complete and a cost estimate based on the TDR design done, the future programme must be addressed. The major new factor is the very real possibility that Japan may proceed with a […]

Happy New Year! Reflections on 2012

| 10 January 2013

Last year was an especially exciting year for particle physics with the discovery of a 126-GeV particle that appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson. This event is likely to be the most important discovery in decades: the observation of a new kind of particle that signals the mechanism for creating mass in the universe. […]

Accelerating news

| 11 October 2012

The third issue of the newsletter Accelerating News brings summaries of project plans, new ideas and progress on EU-funded projects. From the editors: This summer saw CERN announce to a worldwide audience the discovery of a Higgs-like boson, so this issue takes a look at the machine behind the discovery, the LHC, as well as […]

Grassroots master plan includes a Higgs factory

Particle physics community from Europe and beyond discusses future strategy

| 27 September 2012

When scientists make plans or want to show the results of their work, they write a paper. Nearly 170 such papers recently landed on the desks of the members of the European Strategy Preparatory Group, a part of the European Strategy Group that is charged by the CERN Council to come up with recommendations for […]

An ILC Higgs factory – is it enough?

| 27 September 2012

The announcement of the discovery at the LHC in July of “that new boson” at approximately 125 GeV has everybody excited (and I’m sure more than a few quite relieved). As a humble accelerator builder I stood in wonder as I observed the world media event that followed. Following my particle physics colleagues to Cracow […]

ILCSC plans the future

| 23 August 2012

In the wake of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle at CERN, the International Linear Collider Steering Committee met at ICHEP12 to orchestrate its own demise (and ours), while taking steps to put into place its (and our) replacements that will have the goal of making the linear collider the next global project in high-energy […]

The Higgs is Different

Theoretical physicist and ILCSC chair Jonathan Bagger explains how

| 5 July 2012

If yesterday’s newly discovered particle turns out to be the Higgs boson, as many think it might, it will be a landmark accomplishment for physics.  Every other fundamental particle discovered to date – the quarks, leptons and gauge bosons of the standard model – has spin, an intrinsically quantum mechanical property that determines its fate. […]