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 […]
ILC candidate site in Japan announced
The ILC site evaluation committee of Japan announced the result of the assessment on the two candidate sites in Japan in a press conference held at the University of Tokyo on 23 August 2013. As a location, they recommended the Kitakami mountains in the Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. The search for an appropriate candidate site […]
Moving from emotions to negotiations
We particle physicists have lived through some exciting times recently. A few years ago, the world witnessed live when the LHC was switched on for the first time (to my countdown). A few days later, one of the interconnects broke, and it took us more than a year to get the LHC back into shape. […]
Japanese delegation explores European labs
Image: DESY A delegation from the prefectures Fukuoka and Saga on the Japanese island Kyushu visited two European labs, CERN and DESY, last week to learn about existing research infrastructures and the labs’ experiences with management, administration, local communication and a whole lot more. The region is one of two possible Japanese sites for the […]