Colloquium by Frank Close (Oxford University) on Thursday 18 April in the CERN Main Auditorium at 16h30. The colloquium will be webcast.
Cherry seed colliders unite
According to Linear Collider Deputy Director Hitoshi Murayama, the Large Hadron Collider is a collider of cherry pies, with lots of cherries, pastry and cream flying off in all directions, while what scientists are really after is the collision of two cherry seeds. The ILC and CLIC, by contrast, are colliders of cherry seeds, he […]
Higgs session at Moriond
The Moriond conference, one of the most central physics conferences where latest results are presented to the community, is in full swing. Yesterday, Wednesday, was entirely dedicated to “The SM Scalar boson” – or, in other words, the new particle discovered at the LHC. Both the CMS and ATLAS experiments presented their latest results, and […]
Physics thrives in South Korea
Many of us who are involved in ILC design efforts were in South Korea for the KILC12 workshop in May in Daegu. Wearing a different hat as past president of the American Physical Society, I was also invited to participate in the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean Physical Society in Daejean. That […]
The Higgs and the ILC
The Higgs boson is being eagerly sought by particle physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN because it would explain how elementary particles get their mass, a process called spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking. The discovery of a new phenomenon, maybe the Higgs boson, at the LHC at around 125 GeV could validate this concept, […]
Make no assumptions
A linear collider would complete the picture
Collisions in the LHC are like fireworks. At energies no other particle collider has ever reached, protons smash into protons and produce such exciting particles as the Higgs boson. The catch: many, many things go on at these collisions, and filtering out the interesting ones is possible, but hard. What is more, LHC physicists can […]
Encouraging news from CERN
We at the ILC Research Directorate are all thrilled with the announcement from CERN this week that a Higgs-like particle has been discovered. The Higgs particle has been a target of our experiments for over decades, and the affirming news that has finally arrived from the LHC is a great step forward. I wish to […]
Scientific justification for the ILC
A first panel discussion on what will be required to provide scientific justification for the International Linear Collider was held at the LCSW11 workshop in Granada, Spain, in September 2011. That lively discussion could be characterised by expressions of a broad set of opinions, but most of the panelists and audience stated that if the […]
FALC meets in Japan
The ILC initiative is unique in many ways, but perhaps the most striking characteristic is that it is truly a global effort having no home laboratory to support or guide its efforts. Instead, scientific guidance comes from the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), currently chaired by Pier Oddone, through its subcommittee, the International Linear […]