On 21 February 2013 at 4pm PST, the Linear Collider
Collaboration announced a new partnership between two studies
for next-generation particle colliders aimed to complement the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN and strengthen worldwide
efforts to understand the universe through particle physics. The
International Linear Collider Collaboration will include the
International Linear Collider (ILC) led by Mike Harrison of
Brookhaven National Lab in the US, the Compact Linear Collider
(CLIC) led by Steinar Stapnes at CERN and a section devoted to
research for physics and detectors led by Hitoshi Yamamoto of
Tohoku University in Japan. Lyn Evans, former Project Leader of
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will head the collaboration.
"There are a lot of areas where the ILC and CLIC are very
similar,” says Evans. “Now we will bring the two groups together
in a project where they can actually collaborate. Hitoshi
Murayama of the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the
Universe in Tokyo, Japan, will be dep