ILC Status

Kaoru Yokoya, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK
Wednesday, Sep 19, 4:10 PM - Nuclear Science Seminar
1200 FRIB Laboratory

Abstract:  Studies on electron-positron linear colliders started in mid 1980s in various labs world-wide. They were unified in the name of ILC (International Linear Collider) in 2004 and a new organization GDE was formed immediately. The GDE published the TDR (Technical Design Report) in 2013 and passed the work to the LCC (Linear Collider Collaboration). Japanese scientists raised their hands to build it in Japan and Japanese Government has been discussing about its approval since the TDR publication. Some sort of decision by the government will be made by the end of this year. In this seminar, design features of the ILC with technology issues will be explained together with the recent movements of the MEXT (Ministry of Education and Science) and the Science Council of Japan.