Director’s Corner 19 June 2008 Barry Barish Hot off the press: Technical Design Phase ILC R&D plan “The word draft has been removed!” announced Project Manager Nick Walker during the GDE meeting at Dubna, Russia. This seemingly innocent statement represents perhaps the most important accomplishment and milestone since completing the ILC Reference Design Report (RDR) […]
Globalising R&D
Director’s Corner 15 May 2008 Barry Barish Globalising R&D The coordination of superconducting radiofrequency R&D is central to the Global Design Effort’s mission of bringing the design for the ILC to the point we can make a robust proposal to our governments. Our efforts are becoming globalised more rapidly than we had envisioned. To achieve […]
ILC Baseline Alternative: The Re-entrant Cavity
Director’s Corner 22 March 2007 Barry Barish ILC Baseline Alternative: The Re-entrant Cavity Hasan Padamsee, leader of the Cornell superconducting RF R&D group ILC R&D on superconducting RF technology is of special importance because it represents our central technology, and it is an area where we are forging the way for future accelerators that will […]
R&D Board
Director’s Corner 2 February 2006 Barry Barish R&D Board A decade or so ago, the thought of building a TeV scale linear collider was pretty much just a romantic notion. The long extrapolations from present accelerators and from proven technologies were daunting. But, mostly as a direct result of more than a decade of […]