If you ever come to the Kitakami region and visit the ILC candidate site in Japan, you may well stop at or change over at Ichinoseki station (Ichinoseki-eki). Since a few weeks, local people and the visitors can view an ILC booth in the station, providing information about the ILC project and candidate site. Osamu […]
Newly formed European linear collider forum to increase communication with the project board
The Linear Collider Board is the main decision body to promote and oversee the linear collider and its detectors as a worldwide collaborative project. In Europe, a new body, the European Linear Collider Forum has just been launched to channel European discussions concerning the ILC and CLIC and to facilitate input for the international Linear […]
Physics and detector organisation – Progressing on delicate balances
In the charge drafted by the ILCSC nearly two years ago, the responsibility of the associate director for physics and detectors of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) was stated as follows: “He/she will coordinate the world-wide effort to develop advanced detectors that are appropriate for either accelerator technology…Initially, the Associate Director will focus on Building […]
Future Colliders: A strategic perspective
Over the past decades, colliders have defined the energy frontier in particle physics. Both electron-positron, proton-(anti)proton as well as electron-proton colliders have played complementary roles in fully mapping out the constituents and forces in the Standard Model (SM). We are now at a point where all predicted SM constituents have been found at colliders. Currently […]
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 candidate site in Japan announced
The ILC site evaluation committee of Japan announced the result of the assessment on the two candidate sites in Japan in a press conference held at the University of Tokyo on 23 August 2013. As a location, they recommended the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. The search for an appropriate candidate site […]
Strategy for linear colliders
After last summer’s preparation for the European Strategy process – in the meantime successfully concluded into an approved document by the CERN Council – this summer has been dedicated to the Snowmass process in the US, as well as hectic ILC preparations and discussions in Japan. In all regions linear collider projects are high on […]
The ILC at a glance 2
A new version of the ILC animation is released
What will the ILC look like? How big is its linear accelerator? How would you describe a particle collision? The new ILC animation “The ILC in 2 minutes” helps explain and schematise the ILC operation. This longer version now includes the latest machine and detector design and also comes with optional sound and various languages […]
The challenge of technology
Mastery of difficult technologies is in the DNA of high-energy physics and the accelerators that enable the science. For many decades ever increasing beam energies and intensities have given rise to not just spectacular science results but also to a well documented stream of technical innovations which have resulted in spin-offs in many non-related fields. […]
Register now for LC13 Workshop
The LC13 Wokshop: “Exploring QCD from the infrared regime to heavy flavour scales at B-factories, the LHC and a Linear Collider” will take place in Trento, Italy from 16 to 20 September 2013. LC13 agenda and registration pages are now online. Registration will end on 30 August 2013. For more information, contact Giulia Pancheri.