Natural disasters have not deterred KEK from looking to the future of the ILC
Almost four weeks have passed since the worst disaster that has ever hit northeast Japan. KEK has been evaluating damage to its facilities and buildings and is planning to release the official disaster report soon. Recovery activities that do not require much electricity consumption have begun already as KEK employees work to return operations to […]
At the end of 2012, the Global Design Effort (GDE) will release its Technical Design Report. At the same time, the Research Directorate (RD) and the ILC community will produce detailed baseline designs for two detectors. What then? A conceptual supporting model of a multinational-laboratory This is the question being addressed by the International Linear […]
Director’s Corner 23 September 2010 Barry Barish Beyond the Technical Design ReportThe main focus of the efforts of the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) are to carry out the critical R&D programme needed for a successful ILC and to build on the ILC Reference Design by creating a Technical Design Report (TDR) that can be […]
Director’s Corner 20 May 2010 Barry Barish International Linear Collider Steering Committee confronts ILC R&D support issues Scientific oversight for the ILC Global Design Effort is provided by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The most recent meeting of the ILCSC, chaired by Jon […]
Director’s Corner 22 October 2009 Barry Barish ILCSC grapples with moving the Linear Collider forward The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), held their biannual meeting on 19 August during the Hamburg Lepton Photon Conference. ILCSC provides scientific and technical oversight for the ILC accelerator […]
Director’s Corner 24 July 2008 Barry Barish ILCSC approves new MOU at the Dubna meeting The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) met on 4 June 2008 at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, in parallel with the first day of our Global Design Effort meeting. We began the day with […]
As the new chair of the ILC Steering Committee (ILCSC), Enzo Iarocci will have to do a lot of negotiating. Not only with the other members of the Steering Committee or the ILC community, but most of all with his wife. “In this new position I will have to probably travel even more than I […]
Director’s Corner 7 December 2006 Barry Barish Parameters for the Linear Collider – An Update As we explore the possible trade-offs to make the ILC Reference Design as cost effective as possible, we have needed sharper definitions for some of the stated parameters, making us consider alternatives. With this in mind, the International Linear Collider […]
Director’s Corner 24 August 2006 Barry Barish Revisiting the ILC Parameters An innocent looking little document entitled "Parameters for the Linear Collider" dated 30 September 2003 has to a large extent determined the present baseline design of the ILC. We have used this document as if it were "a requirements document," and the baseline design […]
Director’s Corner22 September 2005 Barry Barish My job as GDE Director has been defined by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) in the Annex of the MOU between collaborating institutions. This document, which is still being finalized, lists as one of my responsibilities in Section 5.3 of the Annex “he/she will be the primary […]