The final deliverable of the Global Design Effort, the ILC Technical Design Report, was completed and submitted in draft form to the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) in November 2012. Following a successful technical review in December, an international cost review of the TDR ILC value estimate was chaired by Norbert Holtkamp of SLAC […]
TDR review season is underway
The final deliverable for the Global Design Effort (GDE) is the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC. We completed a draft TDR last November and submitted it for review. The accelerator volumes of the TDR consist of one volume on the R&D programme accomplishments and future programme and a second volume on the ILC […]
Happy New Year! Reflections on 2012
Last year was an especially exciting year for particle physics with the discovery of a 126-GeV particle that appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson. This event is likely to be the most important discovery in decades: the observation of a new kind of particle that signals the mechanism for creating mass in the universe. […]
GDE Executive Committee meets face to face
The Global Design Effort (GDE) Executive Committee met face to face in Washington, DC, from 8-9 February at the offices of the American Physical Society. The GDE Executive Committee is the senior responsible body for the GDE and advises me on the broad range of science and policy issues involved in directing our efforts. Being […]
Report of the International Cost Review of the ILC
Director’s Corner 21 June 2007 Barry Barish Report of the International Cost Review of the ILC What could be better than Paris in springtime? Maybe having enough free time to enjoy it! Last month, many of us in the GDE went to Paris (to Orsay to be precise) for our long anticipated International Cost Review […]