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.
The ILC group in IPNS studies the physics potential of the ILC, the design of the detector which will be used to record its collisions, and the software needed to analyse the data it collects. We work in close collaboration with other groups in Japan and around the world.