On Monday 11 June, Japan’s Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA) launched a new website where site visitors can get all the information related to the ILC in Japanese. KEK, Japan’s high-energy physics laboratory, is the Japanese centre of ILC R&D, however KEK’s website is not the most convenient place to learn about the ILC. […]
Some highlights from the KILC12 workshop
A workshop organised by the Asian Committee on Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) was held in Daegu, Korea from 23 to 27 April 2012. The central emphasis of this workshop was the final discussions of the technical systems for the ILC, before we launch full-fledged into producing the Technical Design […]
ILC physics and detector programme sees progress in Kyushu
On 22 May, a small room at Kyushu University’s Hakozaki campus was crowded with journalists and local officials of the Kyushu area. A press briefing was held one day before the starting day of lively discussions on one of the detector concepts for the International Linear Collider, the ILD workshop. “I appreciate the media’s interests […]
France, Japan and Korea cooperation in particle physics
For the first time, two internationally associated laboratories, the France-Korea Laboratory for Particle Physics and e-science and the France-Japan Particle Physics Laboratory (renamed Toshiko Yuasa Laboratory), jointly held their annual meeting, providing new opportunities for trilateral collaborations. More than 70 physicists gathered from 28-30 May at the Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Talks […]
Test facility at KEK becomes an accelerator
On 13 April at KEK’s superconducting radiofrequency test facility (STF), researchers successfully transported beam to the beam dump. The dump, located in the last part of the accelerator, is designed to absorb the energy of particles within accelerated beam. Now STF is no longer a test facility: it is the STF accelerator. STF is an […]
ILC beyond the technical design
Realising a big international project such as the International Linear Collider involves many issues beyond finalising the technical design. The Advanced Accelerator Association promoting science and technology (AAA), Japan’s industry-academia collaboration towards the realisation of the ILC, recently published a report to address such issues. This report, entitled “ILC – Issues in construction of the ILC […]
Japanese civil engineers dig deep in Europe
A contribution from the Global Design Effort's civil engineering team
Ten members from the Japanese Society for Civil Engineering’s committee for civil works for future ILC facilities came to Europe in February to look at current civil engineering projects like CERN’s LINAC4 and the European XFEL in Hamburg and to discuss administrative challenges. By the end of March next year, the committee will publish draft […]
Japanese civil engineers visit DESY and CERN
A delegation from the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering visited the European labs CERN and DESY this month to learn about how the laboratories run their projects. They are pictured here about to enter the tunnel under construction for the European XFEL. Read more about the visit in a future issue of ILC NewsLine.
A visit to the two candidate Japanese ILC sites
A common question I am often asked is where the ILC will be sited. That is obviously a very important question, but we don’t have an answer yet. We will complete the Technical Design Report (TDR) within the next year and the Large Hadron Collider will, we believe, produce physics results that can both motivate […]
We’re ready for our close-up
Image: Yasuhiro Sugimoto An NHK television news crew followed around ILC scientists for two days last week as they visited proposed sites for building the ILC in Japan. NHK’s five-minute segment appeared on the 7 a.m. news, reaching an estimated 30 million homes. Scientists were excited to be part of the Japanese news media. Here, […]