Following the International Committee for Future Accelerator’s August announcement of the new phase toward preparation for the International Linear Collider (ILC), the Americas Linear Collider Committee (ALCC chaired by Hugh Montgomery) has scheduled the next workshop on linear colliders, to be held virtually via Zoom.The Americas Workshop on Linear Colliders will be held in the week […]
Changes in LCC and in the US regarding ILC
The current Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) reports to the Linear Collider Board (LCB), which in turns reports to the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). At previous ICFA meetings the mandate of the current LCC was extended to the end of 2016 and at its February 2016 meeting ICFA formed a committee, consisting of the […]
Bump or no bump
That was a question at the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics in Chicago
From 3rd August to 10th August the International Conference of High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place at the Sheraton Hotel in the heart of the windy city. More than 1400 scientists, students and industrial representatives from all around the world were attending this major conference to present their research and discuss exciting results in High […]
Big science needs international partnership
International Linear Collider is, as its name suggests, is being discussed as an international project, which involves many countries around the world. As reported in the 3 March issue of LC NewsLine, US-Japan Political Leader’s Forum on Science and Technology was held in Washington D.C., USA, marking a important milestone to move the ILC project forward. […]
Vertical wonder
In 2006, Fermilab’s Particle Physics Division teamed up with MIT’s Lincoln Labs to start work on the first iteration of a new kind chip for the proposed International Linear Collider’s vertex detector. A new way to slim down chips was emerging in the semiconductor industry, one that could potentially make it easier to measure the […]
What does the P5 report mean for the International Linear Collider?
Since the last Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report in 2008, an even stronger case has emerged for building the long heralded International Linear Collider. The latest P5 report, released this year, recommends that the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation make provisions, among other things, for significant US participation in […]
Industrialising the ILC
US members of the Linear Collider Collaboration make plans for a new stage of industrialisation studies.
With the publication of the Technical Design Report (TDR), one stage of design and costing for the ILC is complete. Now, US members of the Linear Collider Collaboration must consider what ILC components the US might contribute—and how they will be produced. By contracting with industry to consider details such as cost and facilities needed, […]
From symmetry magazine: Scientists look to next decades in US particle physics
From the output of the “Snowmass” meeting, US particle physicists will chart a path to answering some of science’s most intriguing questions. More than 600 particle physicists from nearly 100 universities and laboratories came together on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus to enumerate the field’s most pressing scientific questions and contemplate the experiments needed […]
HEPAP discusses reconfigured options for the proposed US long-baseline neutrino experiment
The future of the US high-energy physics (HEP) programme depends on having both viable collaborations on the leading worldwide projects, especially the LHC, and developing, in parallel, important new forefront facilities in the US. Fermilab and the US neutrino community are proposing to concentrate on the intensity frontier by developing next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiments (LBNE) […]
A potential US site for the ILC
One of the largest challenges in designing the ILC is maintaining the ability to site the facility in different countries with candidate sites that have very different characteristics. Our approach to taking this into account for the reference design was to develop a single baseline design having site requirements that could be satisfied by most […]