The international linear collider

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 200–500GeV (extendable to 1TeV) centre-of-mass highluminosity linear electron-positron collider, based on 1.3GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) accelerating technology. Its parameters have been set by physics requirements first outlined in 2003, updated in 2006, and thoroughly discussed over many years with the physics user community. The physicsparametershavebeenreviewedcontinuouslyandfoundtoberobusttoadvancesinthescience, including the recent discovery of a Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.