The expert panel to discuss whether to invite the International Linear Collider to Japan held its first meeting in Tokyo on 8 May. This panel, chaired by Shinichi Hirano, Zhiyuan Professor and Special President Advisor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, as well as professor emeritus of Nagoya University, is composed of 17 experts from various academic […]
The path to an international ILC Lab
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is a misquotation from George Santayana (1863 – 1952). Very suitably for the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), he was a writer with an international perspective who always considered himself both Spanish and American. These words came into my mind when I received an […]
Guideline for ILC civil engineering completed
On 13 March 2014, a colloquium to mark the completion of the guideline for the civil engineering of the International Linear Collider was held at KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. A total of 47 scientists and engineers cerebrated the accomplishment. The guideline was handed over to Atsuto Suzuki, KEK’s Director General, by Hiroshi Chikahisa, chair of […]
Support around the Kitakami site
The Kitakami region in the north of Japan in Iwate prefecture is a potential site for the ILC in Japan, as recommended by the ILC site evaluation committee of Japan on 23 August 2013. And the region is clearly proud of this recommendation. The towns that would be the neighbours of the ILC if it was […]
Bubble wrap made of granite: the ILC and seismic activity
Why are we confident the ILC can be built in a seismic country?
In August 2013, the International Linear Collider site evaluation committee of Japan announced that they evaluated a site in Kitakami as the best candidate location in Japan for the ILC. The exciting news came after meticulous preparation and study to ensure that the site was suitable for the 31-kilometre linear collider. Among the most important […]
Japanese government makes a move
We were all holding our breaths to see the Japanese government making an official move towards hosting the ILC. A small but significant move happened as a Christmas present. On 24 December 2013, the Japanese cabinet released the government budget proposal for the Japanese Fiscal Year 2014 that will be voted on in the Diet […]
A physicist walks into a rice paddy…
The Linear Collider Collaboration management team visited the recommended site in the Kitakami mountains last week. Surrounded by local journalists, including several camera teams, they inspected the area that might one day host the International Linear Collider.
LCWS13 – a timely linear collider workshop
The international linear collider workshop LCWS13 will be hosted by the University of Tokyo from 11 to 15 November. In June 2013, the ILC TDR was completed and the new international linear collider organisation LCC has fully taken over from the GDE (Global Design Effort) and RD (Research Directorate) that coordinated the activities to produce the […]
ILC project is entering next phase
A committee of Japanese scientists recommended the Kitakami mountains in Tohoku, Japan’s northeast region, as a candidate construction site for the International Linear Collider after evaluating it together with the alternate candidate of Sefuri in Kyushu, the southern island of Japan. “It really was a tough process,” said Kiyotomo Kawagoe, co-chair of the ILC site […]
ILC candidate site evaluation in Japan
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Sachio Komamiya, Chair of the Linear Collider Board.
The ILC Site Evaluation Committee of Japan co-chaired by Kiyotomo Kawagoe, professor of Kyushu University and Hitoshi Yamamoto, professor of Tohoku University has assessed the two candidate sites, the Sefuri mountains in Kyushu (south island of Japan) and the Kitakami mountains in the Tokoku, northeast area, based on technical and socio-environmental criteria. The committee has […]