The world of particle physics changed in 2012. Following decades of experimental searches and analysis, the scalar particle thought to be responsible for electroweak symmetry breaking, the Higgs boson, was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC at CERN. Now that we know of the existence and mass of the Higgs boson, […]
A well-focused workshop on top quark physics held at KEK
The top quark is one of the pillars of the physics topics that linear colliders address. With its large mass of about 175 GeV the top quark is the heaviest particle in the standard model – even heavier than the Higgs boson. Its value suggests that the top quark may have something to do with […]
From shutdown to cooldown: the LHC is preparing to get back online
Former LHC project leader looks back at his developing project and ahead towards the future
The LHC has been shut down for consolidation since the beginning of 2013. This break is called Long Shutdown 1 or LS1. One of the biggest jobs has been the opening and inspection of all the 1695 magnet-magnet interconnects. They had to be carefully checked and sometimes repaired to make sure that they can take […]
Some highlights from the KILC12 workshop
A workshop organised by the Asian Committee on Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) was held in Daegu, Korea from 23 to 27 April 2012. The central emphasis of this workshop was the final discussions of the technical systems for the ILC, before we launch full-fledged into producing the Technical Design […]
Physics at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop
Director’s Corner 1 April 2010 Barry Barish “Physics” at the Beijing Linear Collider Workshop A highlight of the opening day plenary session at the Linear Collider Workshop 2010 at Beijing from 24 to 29 March 2010 was a talk given (over video from Kashiwa, Japan) by Hitoshi Murayama simply entitled “Physics.” In actuality, Hitoshi addressed […]