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 […]
CERN-KEK offices established
CERN and KEK have a long history of collaboration. An agreement signed at KEK on 21 November puts this on even firmer ground: both labs will establish CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative effort on accelerator R&D and construction projects of mutual interest.. There are a number of key projects that fall into this category: the […]
How small can you go?
ATF2 breaks beam size records
The Americas Workshop on Linear Collider 2014 was held at Fermilab just before the approval of the P5 report, which contains the positive message calling for US participation in the planned International Linear Collider (ILC), should the project commence (see 22 May issue of LC NewsLine). In the workshop, there were many presentations on technical advancements […]
Guideline for ILC civil engineering completed
On 13 March 2014, a colloquium to mark the completion of the guideline for the civil engineering of the International Linear Collider was held at KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. A total of 47 scientists and engineers cerebrated the accomplishment. The guideline was handed over to Atsuto Suzuki, KEK’s Director General, by Hiroshi Chikahisa, chair of […]
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 […]
Now open: the Planning Office for the International Linear Collider to realise the ILC
I am pleased to be in charge to provide the Director’s Corner in timely manner and coinciding with a public announcement from KEK. KEK has set up a Planning Office for the International Linear Collider, headed by Atsuto Suzuki, Director General of KEK. It may serves a precursor for an international planning organisation for the […]
Doors open wide
Every few years, CERN opens its doors to the general public. The last “Open Days” took place in 2008 before the LHC startup. The present long shutdown of the CERN facilities provides an ideal opportunity to continue this tradition, which is essential in establishing trust in the local communities as well as giving the public […]
Demonstrating the ILC final focus parameters
A key feature of the ILC is that it is a single-pass machine. In contrast to a circular accelerator, where the beam goes around many times, the ILC beams pass through each accelerator element only once, including the interaction point. For the accelerator, this means that for each accelerating module, the machine must be very […]
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.
A spin-off of ILC technology – already
On 15 March, scientists working on the Quantum Beam Technology Program at KEK’s superconducting RF test facility (STF) confirmed the successful generation of X-rays using Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) with superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) acceleration technology. This is the world’s first successful implementation of ICS X-ray sources with SCRF technology. The Quantum Beam Technology Program is […]