About Marc Ross
Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
Marc Ross | 28 June 2012
New machines set new challenges for accelerator experts, and there are a number of challenges that the ILC R&D team has had to face before sitting down to write a convincing Technical Design Report. Beam test facilities in all regions have delivered and are still delivering important results. Project Manager Marc Ross takes stock.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
cavity gradient, SCRF, TDR, Technical Design Phase
Marc Ross | 28 July 2011
Niobium’s superconducting ability recommends it as a metal of choice for ILC accelerating cavities, but it brings challenges to the R&D table. Laboratories and industry alike work to set down the best possible, most cost-effective process for forming niobium into high-performing structures.
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cavity production, Cavity Production Pilot Plant, niobium
Marc Ross | 30 September 2010
There is an encouraging possibility that Japan will bid to host the ILC. Earlier this month, at the autumn meeting of the Physical Society of Japan held at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, representatives of the Japanese ILC community announced two potential ILC sites.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
CFS, conventional facilities and siting, ILC site, Japan, mountain-region ILC sites
Marc Ross | 25 November 2009
(...) Taking all ILC cavity tests into account, a globally-based pattern of achievement and success emerges, giving confidence that we will meet or even exceed the forward looking-goal we set for ourselves at Snowmass in 2005.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
cavity gradient, cryomodule, nine-cell cavity
Marc Ross | 26 March 2009
This guest Director's Corner is about our effort to open new relationships and partnerships with the (cavity manufacturing) companies, worldwide.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
cavity diagnostic, cavity manufacturing, cavity production, fabrication process, industrialisation, SRF industrialisation
Marc Ross | 26 November 2008
Last week several hundred scientists and engineers gathered at the new Forum Event Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago for LCWS 08 and ILC 08. Once per year the Global Design Effort hosts a plenary meeting to which the entire community is invited to hear progress, plans and general presentations, and for 2008 this meeting was ILC08.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
cavity gradient, ILCWS08, LCWS08, TDP, Technical Design Phase
Marc Ross | 30 October 2008
The ILC-CLIC (International Linear Collider - Compact Linear Collider Study) collaboration was started earlier this year at CERN. It consists of five working groups which are led by conveners from both projects. Collaboration mandates and activities were defined with an eye toward this autumn’s workshops: the CLIC08 workshop, held at CERN from 14 to 17 October and the ILC-LCWS08, to be held in the middle of next month in Chicago. CLIC08 was the first time the group met face to face since the collaboration and its working groups were established. The collaboration is intended to serve two basic purposes: firstly to allow a more efficient use of resources, especially engineers, and secondly to promote communication between the two project teams. Of course, face-to-face meetings tend to be more effective than tele-conferencing, so many excellent opportunities for direct, informal, discussion arose between the two teams and we made good progress toward our second purpose. Since the framework of the meeting was the CLIC08 workshop, the agenda naturally focused on CLIC challenges and plans with specific collaboration highlights having a key, but minor overall role.
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CERN, CLIC, CLIC08, ILC-CLIC collaboration
Marc Ross | 27 March 2008
It has been roughly a year since the completion of the Reference Design Report (RDR) and the creation of a project-oriented design effort. It is reasonable, therefore, to look broadly over our accomplishments and the direction in which we are heading.
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Director's Corner | Tagged:
global collaboration, plug compatibility, TDP, Technical Design Phase
Marc Ross | 30 August 2007
In August 2007, the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider published a Reference Design Report that contains a description of the design of the linear collider and a 'value' cost estimate.
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engineering design
