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Published October 30, 2013 | public
Journal Article

The International Linear Collider

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the key features of the recently completed technical design for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a 200–500 GeV linear electron–positron collider (expandable to 1 TeV) that is based on 1.3 GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) technology. The machine parameters and detector characteristics have been chosen to complement the Large Hadron Collider physics, including the discovery of the Higgs boson, and to further exploit this new particle physics energy frontier with a precision instrument. The linear collider design is the result of nearly 20 years of R&D, resulting in a mature conceptual design for the ILC project that reflects an international consensus. We summarize the physics goals and capability of the ILC, the enabling R&D and resulting accelerator design, as well as the concepts for two complementary detectors. The ILC is technically ready to be proposed and built as a next generation lepton collider, perhaps to be built in stages beginning as a Higgs factory.

Additional Information

© 2013 World Scientific Publishing Company. Received 17 September 2013; Accepted 20 September 2013; Published 23 October 2013. The authors thank the International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA) and the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) for scientific and technical guidance, the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider (FALC) for international funding agency guidance, and the US Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation for their support. We thank our many colleagues whose work is summarized here, particularly the members of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for carrying out the accelerator R&D and design and the GDE Executive Committee for providing overall technical leadership. We also acknowledge our many colleagues of the ILC Research Directorate, the SiD and ILD detector collaborations, the ILC detector R&D collaborations and the World Wide Study for Future electron–positron Linear Colliders, for developing the scientific goals, studying the reach for new physics, designing the detectors and carrying out the detector R&D that proved the detector technologies.

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