The superconducting technology at the heart of the future International Linear Collider is one of the outstanding innovations of the machine’s design. Of international heritage, ILC-type superconducting acceleration has borne American offspring, including technology for the newest kid on the block, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s light source LCLS II, scheduled to begin operations in late […]
The year 2014 – The real starting year of the ILC?
Close to the end of the year 2013, we had encouraging news for the ILC. On 24 December, the Japanese cabinet released the government budget decision for fiscal year 2014 – which includes an official budget for the International Linear Collider. The amount of the budget is 50 million yen, about half a million US […]
Senior vice-minister of science of Japan visits CERN
One hundred metres under Swiss roads and fields, Yoshitaka Sakurada, Senior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, was pleased to discover the Japanese flag proudly displayed on an inner triplet magnet, one of the Japanese contributions to the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN. Guided in the LHC by former […]
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 […]
Take two for cryomodule 2
Fermilab reinstalls CM2, plans to be ready for cooldown in July
With the repair and reinstallation of the cryomodule known as CM2, researchers at Fermilab, US, are back on the road towards achieving the International Linear Collider’s R&D goal (named task force “S1”): operating a cryomodule at ILC gradient specifications. Originally installed in May 2012 as a part of the Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator (ASTA) in […]
S1-Global – a plug-compatible ILC demonstration experiment
The S1-Global experiment was conceived to demonstrate the RF operation of an ILC cryomodule with an average accelerating gradient of 31.5 megavolts/metre (MV/m). The GDE Accelerator Advisory Panel, chaired by Bill Willis, identified it as one of our ILC demonstration experiments with high priority. S1-Global has been successfully completed and a detailed technical report has […]
Mapping the ILC
The ‘international’ in ‘International Linear Collider’ isn’t just a part of a name. The ILC is demonstrably global, involving thousands of scientists from the Americas, Asia and Europe in accelerator activity, detector research and physics pursuits. The map below is a picture of ILC activity around the world. Visit the map webpage and click around. […]
Jefferson Lab and IHEP renew accelerator cavity collaboration
Under the umbrella of the PRC-US Cooperation on High Energy Physics, Jefferson Lab and IHEP exchange notes on cavity R&D
At a recent meeting between US and Chinese high-energy and nuclear physics laboratories, Jefferson Lab in Newport News, US, and the Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, renewed a partnership to collaborate on the development of superconducting accelerator cavities, including an ILC-type nine-cell cavity. It is a continuation of a collaboration that […]
Thank you, ILC, too!
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Peter H. Garbincius, recent Global Design Effort Cost Manager
International…Linear…Collider International is the key word. At least in the area of elementary particle physics, the ILC has been the first accelerator mega-project intended to have global participation directly from its conception. Its scope requires international participation, which also demands global understanding and cooperation. What a great concept…if only countries and different peoples could learn […]
The beauty of international collaboration
Director’s Corner 27 August 2009 Jean-Pierre Delahaye The beauty of international collaboration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CLIC study leader and latest addition to the GDE Executive Committee. As a newcomer to the ILC GDE Executive Committee (EC), which I feel is a great honour, I have been kindly (but firmly) […]