Research Director’s Report15 July 2010 Jim Brau Optimal ILC physics performance at acceptable cost and riskThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.Several years ago, the international community reached a widely held understanding that a linear collider will be needed to […]
Optimising the value of the ILC
Research Director’s Report21 January 2010 Jim Brau Optimising the value of the ILCThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas. Several years ago (in 2003), the parameters for the linear collider were defined by the ILCSC Parameters Committee chaired by Rolf […]
Spreading the excitement of discovery
Research Director’s Report16 July 2009 Jim Brau Spreading the excitement of discoveryThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.Why is the down quark’s charge precisely one-third that of the electron? This is a remarkable relationship that challenged high school physics teachers […]
Cautious optimism for US-university detector R&D funding
Research Director’s Report22 January 2009 Jim Brau Cautious optimism for US-university detector R&D fundingThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.Several recent positive developments are moving us forward on the path towards realising the ILC. These include excellent detector R&D results […]
New US Strategic plan for particle physics recommends restored participation in ILC R&D
Research Director’s Report12 June 2008 Jim Brau, author of this week’s Research Director Report, is a member of the P5 panel. New US Strategic plan for particle physics recommends restored participation in ILC R&D This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study, regional detector contact for the Americas […]