The Japanese town Kesen-Numa has large expertise in the fishing and port industry, but they have never hosted a major international lab. A delegation recently visited CERN to learn how these labs work, what they need and what benefit they bring to their neighbours. Their visit included a trip to the site of the CMS […]
Crossing technical and cultural borders
EU project E-JADE fosters exchange between European and Japanese researchers
Oskar Hartbrich is a PhD student who specialises in developing state-of-the art calorimeters for future ILC detectors. He is also a specialist for full detectors simulations, and he has just spent nine weeks in Japan getting even deeper into this role, sitting side by side with other experts from Tokyo and Shinshu universities to further […]
“ILC to Japan!”
The people of Iwate prefecture in northern Japan – the potential future home of the ILC – go to great lengths to show their support for the collider project. Banners under cherry blossoms and bumper stickers are just a few of the many examples of visible support – here are a few impressions from a […]
Towards the realisation of the International Linear Collider
At the ILC Tokyo Symposium, held on 22 April 2015 at the Ito International Hall, Tokyo, Japan, the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and the more than 300 participants from around the world at the Asian Linear Collider Workshop (ALCW) 2015 decided to issue a statement confirming their conviction of the scientific justification for a prompt […]
Bright lights, big city – the ILC comes to town
Last week during the Asian Regional Workshop ALCW 2015 held in Tsukuba, the ILC broke with the tradition of staying in one place when the workshop participants moved en masse to Tokyo for what is best described as a multicultural extravaganza in support of the International Linear Collider. Taking advantage of the workshop’s location in Japan […]
April in Paris
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is a feeling That no one can ever reprise” Thus run the lyrics of the famous song, composed by Vernon Duke in 1932. Indeed the first Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting of the LCC era was held in idyllic weather […]
Altogether now: ILC! #mylinearcollider
This video of support for the ILC was recorded during the latest project meeting of ATF2 which took place from 24 to 26 February 2015 at LAPP laboratory in Annecy, France ATF2 is a test facility at the KEK laboratory in Japan which contains a prototype of an advanced optics design of the final focus […]
Towards global political support
When the LCC visited the Tohoku region in January, we had an opportunity to see a couple of Diet members and their staff. One of them was very succinct about the problems concerning ILC. He pointed out that the Federation of Diet members to promote a construction of international laboratory for LC boasts more than 20% […]
Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 coming soon
As LC NewsLine reported in its 8-January issue, the Asian Linear Collider Workshop 2015 (ALCW2015) will take place at KEK from 20 – 24 April. The workshop will be devoted to accelerator, physics and detector aspects of future high energy electron-positron linear colliders. This workshop is the first Asian regional workshop since the LCC started […]
Sneak Peek at Interviews: Life in Iwate
The first time I heard that there was something called an ILC that might come to Iwate, it was maybe 2011 or 2012 and I was drinking coffee at Esashi bus station in Oshu City taking a break before walking over to teach an English class. There was a poster on the wall in Japanese […]