About Jim Brau
Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional contact for the Americas.
Jim Brau | 28 June 2012
The new Linear Collider Organisation is being planned with a united ILC and CLIC physics and detector effort. This is a natural step, but the devil is in the details. While there has been a lot of fruitful collaboration in the past, there also remain differences that must be considered.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
CLIC, DBD, detectors, ILC, POST-TDR, TDR
Jim Brau | 22 September 2011
The groundwork for the Worldwide Study, a global linear collider physics and detector partnership, was laid more than ten years ago. Since then it has been a driving force for coordination and development of physics studies and detector R&D around the world.
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detector R&D, Worldwide Study
Jim Brau | 17 February 2011
On the eve of the 2011 ILC Americas regional meeting meeting, Jim Brau reports on the progress which has been achieved in the ILC detector and physics field since the last meeting in 2009.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
ALCPG, ALCPG11, detector R&D
Jim Brau | 16 December 2010
The SiD (Silicon Detector) Collaboration met in a workshop at the University of Oregon in Eugene from 15-17 November to review progress, discuss plans, and further organise its effort for the Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report due at the end of 2012. -- Jim Brau and Andy White for SiD
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
DBD, detailed baseline design, SiD
Jim Brau | 15 July 2010
The [SB2009 Working Group] established quantitatively that the low-energy performance of SB2009 was a serious concern for optimal performance at lower energies, such as at and just above the threshold for Z-Higgs (210-350 GeV), an assumed key operating point for the measurement of Higgs properties. In response to these comments from the physics community, the GDE began investigations of concepts which could improve the low-energy luminosity.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
ILC physics performance
Jim Brau | 21 January 2010
[...] Sakue has created a working group of people who are able to simulate the effect of SB2009 parameters on physics performance. Some changes are expected to have little effect on the physics performance of the ILC, while other changes potentially may have important negative implications, challenging the fulfillment of the Parameters and performance.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
baseline configuration, SB2009
Jim Brau | 16 July 2009
Why is the down quark's charge precisely one-third that of the electron -
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outreach
Jim Brau | 22 January 2009
Several recent positive developments are moving us forward on the path towards realising the ILC. These include excellent detector R&D results and significant progress on the Letters of Intent (LOI) for the various detector concepts.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
detector R&D, universities, US funding
Jim Brau | 12 June 2008
This past year, our global collaboration was derailed by funding cuts for the ILC in the UK and in the US. (...) Our dedication and perseverance have been challenged, but the science has not changed: particle physics will need a high-energy linear collider. In the US, a new strategic plan for the funding agencies restates the importance of a lepton collider to advances in particle physics.
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Research Director's Report | Tagged:
HEPAP, P5 report, United States
