The International Linear Collider: A Global Project

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The International Linear Collider (ILC) is now under consideration as the next global project in particle physics.

• In this report, we review of all aspects of the ILC program: the physics motivation, the accelerator design, the run plan, the proposed detectors, the experimental measurements on the Higgs boson, the top quark, the couplings of the W and Z bosons, and searches for new particles.
• We review the important role that polarized beams play in the ILC program.
• The first stage of the ILC is planned to be a Higgs factory at 250 GeV in the centre of mass.