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Ten Years and Counting…

Former GDE Director Barry Barish revisits the project he led for eight years

| 20 August 2015

Many of the striking advances in particle physics during the particle collider era have resulted directly from the complementarity of hadron-hadron and electron-positron colliders.  Unfortunately, it is not practical to build a complementary circular electron-positron collider for the LHC capable of reaching center-of-mass energies of about 1 TeV (tera electronvolt) because of the large amount of […]

Survey reveals ILC-related hopes and fears of high school kids

| 25 June 2015

If the ILC comes to Iwate prefecture, one of the major challenges will be to inform the local community about their big new science neighbour. The prefectural government and the councils of the host town have already set up up ILC task forces, and an expat grassroots support committee actively promotes the project in the […]

Dream for humankind

| 18 April 2013

Our recent meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was a very special moment for me. He said a linear collider was a dream for humankind. The moment happened when LCC Director Lyn Evans visited Japan for three days at the end of March to meet many dignitaries. He had come to invite Japan to host the International Linear […]

How to make the ILC truly international

| 18 October 2012

In order for an international project such as the ILC to succeed, it is not enough to be able to construct the accelerator itself. It is also critical that the site is geologically sound and that the living conditions of the staff and their families are agreeable. There are currently two candidate sites for the […]

Report to build a new international science city presented

| 2 August 2012

With the completion of the Technical Design Report just around the corner, activities surrounding the International Linear Collider have intensified in Japan. On 30 July, the eighth meeting of a study group in Kyushu, the southernmost island of Japan, was held in Saga prefecture. The study group was established in 2007 to study the value […]

ILC detector R&D in Japan stays strong

| 22 September 2011

From 12 to 14 September, about 60 scientists gathered at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, to attend the kick-off meeting for a global R&D programme of a state-of-the-art detector system for the ILC. A large part of ILC detector R&D had been implemented with grants awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), […]

Interim report from the ILC-CLIC general issues group

| 17 February 2011

On 11 January 2010 the ILC Steering Committee and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC) Collaboration Board created a working group to exploit synergies and discuss general issues involving the linear collider. That group has met regularly throughout the last year and submitted an interim report to their respective oversight groups this month. So far, […]