ILC physics and detector

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a proposed electron-positron collider, which is being considered for construction in Japan. The major aim of the ILC is to probe the nature of fundamental particles and forces at energies currently beyond our reach, but which were common at the early stages of our universe.

We will do this by precisely measuring the properties of various known states (most significantly the Higgs boson and the top quark), which are expected to be sensitive to the nature of currently unknown physics at higher energies. The rather clean experimental environment of the ILC will also allow us to make sensitive searches for the direct production of new particles not predicted by the currently “Standard Model” of particle physics.

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