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November in Paris: ILC prepares for Horizon 2020
Cryomodule assembly at CEA, Saclay, France. (Image: DESY/ILC, photographer: Heiner Müller-Elsner) While not quite having the poetical resonance of April, nevertheless November in the French capital has...
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The path to an international ILC Lab
One year ago, Lyn Evans paid a courtesy visit to Japan’s Prime Minister to Shinzo Abe. “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” is a misquotation from George Santayana (1863 –...
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Linear Collider School switches lakes
Participants of the linear collider school. The great cathedrals of medieval Europe are often cited as the physical monuments to an Age of Faith; similarly, the mammoth particle accelerators of our day...
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Return to Dubna
Standing on accelerator history: during his recent trip to Dubna, Brian Foster also visited the Synchrophasotron. One of the historical characteristics of particle physics is its ability to cross...
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April in Paris
Group photo during the PAC meeting at LAL, Orsay, France in April 2015. Image: ©CNRS/LAL, Dominique Longerias. “April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this...
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Addressing the known unknowns
Experience gained at the European Spallation Source currently under construction in Sweden was fed into the Project Implementation Plan. Image: ESS I am sure that my readers will remember that in my...
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Elementary – an award for thorough detective work
View of the SNO detector (before cabling). Image: Ernest Orlando, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Last week’s announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics will not only have given great...
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The Golden State of Linear Colliders
BELLA, the Berkeley Laboratory Laser Accelerator – an experimental facility for advancing the development of laser-driven plasma acceleration. Image: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Lab...
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Looking into the crystal ball
What’s the future of the Linear Collider Collaboration? At its recent meeting in Japan, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) decided that it would form a small subcommittee to...
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After many a summer – and corner…
A bit of history: in 2004 the decision was taken to make the ILC cold. In the last Director’s Corner, Harry Weerts told us about the changes to the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) that had been...
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