Dear colleagues, this one is for you. All those paper writing thesis completing report submitting physicists out there: here comes a new central paper for your list of references and your reading list. It provides a comprehensive physics case for the e+e- linear collider and puts all the topics and ideas from theory, collider searches, […]
ILC starts at 500 GeV and goes down in energy
ILC operation is still some years away, but physicists are already gearing up to find the optimal way to operate the ILC to harvest as much physics as we can. One of the great advantages of the ILC over circular machines is that the energy of the machine is tunable, and can also be upgraded […]
LHC is back in business
On 3 June, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN started delivering physics data for the first time in 27 months at the record energy of 13 TeV. This marks the start of season 2 at the LHC, opening the way to new discoveries. The LHC will now run round the clock for the next […]
Ready for the jump
The LHC’s so-called Run 2 kicks off when first beam circulate in the 27-kilometre tunnel. After a period of getting to know the consolidated and improved LHC, the machine operators think they can deliver first collisions at 13 TeV to the LHC’s experiments in late May or early June. This is a 60% increase in […]
The Higgs is Different
Theoretical physicist and ILCSC chair Jonathan Bagger explains how
If yesterday’s newly discovered particle turns out to be the Higgs boson, as many think it might, it will be a landmark accomplishment for physics. Every other fundamental particle discovered to date – the quarks, leptons and gauge bosons of the standard model – has spin, an intrinsically quantum mechanical property that determines its fate. […]
From CERN Bulletin: Much ado about Nothing – exploring the vacuum with the LHC
Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC
Director’s Corner 8 April 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating first 7-TeV collisions at the LHC This past week marked the beginning of a new era for particle physics with the much publicised achievement of establishing the first 7-TeV collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Both the impressive performance of the accelerator and the fact […]
Cosmic Dark Matter and the ILC
Director’s Corner 8 November 2007 Barry Barish Cosmic Dark Matter and the ILC A couple of weeks ago, Michael Peskin (SLAC) opened the ALCPG07 meeting at Fermilab with a visionary talk titled, “The Physics Landscape: Now and Tomorrow.” I sat in the audience and wondered what he would do with such a sweeping subject in […]