This week’s issue features a Director's Corner from Brian Foster, Global Design Effort European Regional Director
When I was a young postdoc, the only roadmaps I was familiar with were useful for planning vacations. In particle physics, we didn’t necessarily know where we were going but we still seemed to reach our goals with the vehicles to hand: PETRA at DESY, to discover the gluon, SppbarS (or SPS) at CERN, to […]
This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Asia
The joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and GDE meeting on Linear Collider (KILC12) will be held in Daegu, Korea, from 23 to 27 April 2012. The timing of the workshop is likely to be just after the first combined result on the Higgs particle by two LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS, is announced at […]
Finally – finally we start to see results from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that can provide guidance towards a linear collider implementation. It is too early to be conclusive, and more data is definitely needed, but we can be optimistic and excited about 2012. The LHC experiments are zooming in on a low energy […]
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
Germany celebrates “Weltmaschine” LHC
If you ever take part in a science slam and really, really want to come first, here’s a tip: play music on stage. It worked when Brian Foster played the violin to slam about hidden dimensions back in March and it worked when LHC physicist Klaus Desch from Bonn University in Germany used a piano […]
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Michael Peskin, convener of the Physics Common Task Group and of the group preparing the physics chapter of the Detailed Baseline Design report.
The Global Design Effort (GDE) has promised to submit the ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012. To accompany this document, the physics and detector community is preparing the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). That report will discuss the physics measurements to be carried out at the ILC, present the detailed technical designs […]
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director for the Global Design Effort
One of the most evident aspects of the recent LCWS11 meeting in Granada, Spain, was the fact that the linear collider community has developed a meaningful collective consciousness over the past several years as closer integration has taken hold. Granada was the second major joint workshop between the CLIC and ILC programmes following from CERN, […]
The Tevatron at Fermilab, US, was turned off last week and now the high energy frontier has officially moved across the Atlantic Ocean to CERN and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. We have great expectations for LHC physics, since historically higher energy has been our most effective probe to new discoveries in particle […]