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We report on a plan to construct a 50-m-class single-dish telescope, theLarge Submillimeter Telescope (LST). The conceptual design and key sciencebehind the LST are presented, together with its tentative specifications. Thistelescope is optimized for wide-area imaging and spectroscopic surveys in the70--420 GHz frequency range, which spans the main atmospheric windows atmillimeter and submillimeter wavelengths for good observation sites such as theAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) site in Chile. We alsotarget observations at higher frequencies of up to 1 THz, using an innerhigh-precision surface. Active surface control is required in order to correctgravitational and thermal deformations of the surface, and will be useful forcorrection of the wind-load deformation. The LST will facilitate new discoveryspaces such as wide-field imaging with both continuum and spectral lines, alongwith new developments for time-domain science. Through exploitation of itssynergy with ALMA and other telescopes, the LST will contribute to research ona wide range of topics in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, e.g.,astrochemistry, star formation in our Galaxy and galaxies, the evolution ofgalaxy clusters via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, the search for transientssuch as $\gamma$-ray burst reverse shocks produced during the epoch ofre-ionization, electromagnetic follow up of detected gravitational wavesources, and examination of general relativity in the vicinity of super massiveblack holes via submillimeter very-long-baseline interferometry.

New 50-m-class single-dish telescope: Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST)