5 June 2013: CERN/ILC - Media Advisory: International Linear Collider to publish its Technical Design Report

International Linear Collider to publish its Technical Design Report
Handover event to take place at CERN

On 12 June 2013, the scientists working on the International Linear Collider, a next-generation particle collider to complement and advance the physics of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, will officially publish and hand over the ILC's Technical Design Report to the International Committee for Future Accelerators, ICFA. This report marks the technical readiness of the project and contains physics motivation, detailed accelerator and detector designs as well as a thorough costing.

Many years of globally coordinated R&D have culminated in the Technical Design Report, which presents the latest, most technologically advanced and most thoroughly scrutinised design for the International Linear Collider. In a global event starting in Japan and ending in the United States, scientists and their guests will celebrate this achievement in symposia, public talks and a series of handover ceremonies.

The European part of the worldwide handover event will take place at CERN. A series of technical talks, starting at 17:00, will be followed by the official handover ceremony, a talk by Professor Brian Cox at 19:30, and a concert of classical music.

A detailed programme and information about all three parts of the worldwide event can be found at www.linearcollider.org/worldwideevent

Media wishing to attend the symposium, handover or talk at CERN should contact:
The ILC Communicators (communicators@linearcollider.org) or the CERN press office (press.office@cern.ch).