It’s suit and tie time when high-level US and Japanese science planners meet. At the US-Japan Advanced Science and Technology Symposium, held on 30 April in Washington DC, leaders from government, academia and industry met to discuss US-Japan cooperation in science and technology, using the ILC as an example. Learn more in the next issue […]
Good signal, little noise
Power-pulsing tests on the SiW electromagnetic calorimeter yield promising results
Particle detectors are expected to detect a lot of signal and very little background noise so that scientists can see what went on in their detector without being distracted by irrelevant signals. The technological prototype of the silicon-tungsten (SiW) electromagnetic calorimeter passed its first test in summer 2012 with flying colours with a signal to noise […]
Dream for humankind
Our recent meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a very special moment for me. He said a linear collider was a dream for humankind. The moment happened when LCC Director Lyn Evans visited Japan for three days at the end of March to meet many dignitaries. He had come to invite Japan to host the International Linear […]
Roadmap for high energy physics in Japan and KEK
Talk by Yasuhiro Okada (KEK) on Wednesday 24 April 2013 from 11:00 to 12:00 (Europe/Paris) at LAL (Auditorium Pierre Lehmann). The talk will be webcast.
Japanese diet members focus on ATF2
Twelve members of the Japanese Federation of Diet members to promote the realisation of the ILC visited KEK on 4 and 18 March. They spent the longest time at ATF, KEK’s test facility for the linear collider. They also toured KEKB, Belle, and the Photon Factory.
Shin-ichi Kurokawa awarded Chinese top prize
Chinese government announced that Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, Japan, and vice president of Cosylab, was given the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China on 18 January 2013. After receiving the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Friendship Award of […]
Japanese science minister mentions ILC in press conference
On Friday, 18 January, Hakubun Shimomura, Japan’s Minister of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), the funding agency for Japan’s high-energy physics programme, stated Japan’s intention to invite the ILC in the regular press conference after the cabinet meeting, responding to a question from the press about the government’s standpoint to the […]
Press Release: International Linear Collider completes draft of its design report
Handover ceremony on 15 December in Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, 15 December. The draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the planned International Linear Collider ILC was handed over to Jonathan Bagger, the chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), at an official ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, on 15 December. This draft is the product of many years of research and […]
Building the ILC step by step
On 18 October, a meeting of Japanese high-energy physicists to discuss a “phased execution” of the International Linear Collider was held at KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. This meeting was hosted by JAHEP, the Japan association of high-energy physicists, and was called an “expanded” meeting. JAHEP usually hold regular meetings with 15 committee members who were […]
Rolf Heuer, global ILC cities and the role of Japan
On 24 October, a symposium to boost activities to invite the ILC to Japan was held at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. This event was entitled “Forum on Advanced Accelerator Science & Industry – Creation of Global Project Cities.” Because this event’s date coincided with the height of the big ILC conference, LCWS12, held […]