Sixteen thousand – that’s the number of the superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) accelerating cavities needed to build the 500-Giga-electronvolt linear collider. The fabrications of these 16 000 cavities will be divided between the three regions of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This week, encouraging news about SCRF cavity fabrication came form Asia. “This is our first […]
The road to Kitakami
Our mission was clear: we were the tasters, the vanguard. In early February, the two European LC communicators travelled to Japan for three days to a. find our way around the Japanese transport system, b. be filmed doing so, c. find entry points of improvement potential for foreigners about to make the same experience, and […]
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 […]
Bubble wrap made of granite: the ILC and seismic activity
Why are we confident the ILC can be built in a seismic country?
In August 2013, the International Linear Collider site evaluation committee of Japan announced that they evaluated a site in Kitakami as the best candidate location in Japan for the ILC. The exciting news came after meticulous preparation and study to ensure that the site was suitable for the 31-kilometre linear collider. Among the most important […]
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 […]
Happy New Year!
Japan (followed soon by China) has entered the Year of the Horse. Happy New Year to all our readers!
A year in review
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the last year has clarified the initial scientific objective of the Linear Collider projects. It tell us that a Higgs factory will be the first phase of the Linear Collider project. This changes the formerly mutually exclusive situation of the ILC and CLIC projects into peaceful […]
Explaining the ILC in an easy-to-understand way
Despite the largest typhoon in the year approaching, about 300 people braved the elements and gathered at a conference hall at University of Tokyo on 15 October. A symposium entitled “Can the ILC solve the mystery of the Universe?” was held, with representatives from Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) and specialists from various fields. The symposium […]
ILC moves forward in Japan
On 30 September, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) submitted the report on the study of the International Linear Collider to the Ministry for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). This was a response to the request by MEXT in May to the council to examine the ILC project including its scientific significance, the […]