 Designing the world's next great particle accelerator | |
| Abbreviation | LCC |
|---|---|
| Formation | March 22, 2013 |
| Founder | International Committee on Future Accelerators |
| Type | Non-governmental organization |
| Purpose | Scientific collaboration between International Linear Collider and Compact Linear Collider |
Linear Collider Director | Lyn Evans |
The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) is an organization designated by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), a working group of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, to coordinate global research and development efforts for two next-generation particle physics colliders: the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). [1] The mission of the LCC is to facilitate decisions that the next collider "will be built, and where". [2] Members of the collaboration include approximately 2000 accelerator and particle physicists, engineers and other scientists. [2]
In June 2012 ICFA named Lyn Evans, the former project manager of the CERN Large Hadron Collider, as Linear Collider Director. [3] CERN Courier noted, "Evans is the first to hold this new position, which is to lead the Linear Collider organization, created to bring the two existing large-scale linear collider programmes under one governance." [3] He will "lead the effort to unify these programmes and will represent this combined effort to the worldwide science community and funding agencies." [3]
