NewsLine

How long is the ILC linear accelerator?

This week's issue features a Director's Corner by Ewan Paterson, member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee

| 23 February 2012

How long is the ILC linear accelerator? This simple question does not have a simple answer. In the first place, the electron linear accelerator, or linac, is longer than the positron linac because it’s the electron beam’s responsibility to produce the positrons, so part of the electron linac’s length is dedicated to that task. The […]

Decisions, decisions, decisions

| 1 December 2011

In ILC NewsLine last week, Nick Walker wrote a guest Director’s Corner where he outlined the steps to the Technical Design Report (TDR) and Barbara Warmbein wrote a feature article summarising some highlights of the Baseline Technical Review (BTR) meeting at DESY. Today, I write a third article on the same basic subject of how […]