Director’s Corner 17 June 2010 Barry Barish Superconducting RF cavity industrialisation Producing high gradient superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavities that meet our demanding performance goals, are affordable and can be produced by industry represents one of the largest challenges on the way to making a solid project proposal for the ILC. The present 500-GeV ILC design […]
New cavity production facility for future industrialisation
Director’s Corner 30 April 2009 Kaoru Yokoya New cavity production facility for future industrialisation Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. As most of you may know, I have just managed to complete my duty as a chairman of the TILC09 Local Organising Committee last week, and […]
Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers
Director’s Corner 26 March 2009 Marc Ross Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. The most important performance parameter for a linear accelerator is its cost per electronvolt of accelerated beam, or cost per watt of delivered beam power. In […]
LCFOA goes to Washington
Attendees at the LCFOA Capitol Hill industrialisation briefing listening to Marc Ross describing the ILC TD phase plan The Linear Collider Forum of America (LCFOA) held an ILC industrialisation meeting and briefing for Congressional staffers on Capitol Hill on 29 July. The briefing was attended by 46 persons from universities, industry, and laboratories and Congressional […]
The role of industries during the ILC engineering design phase
Director’s Corner 19 April 2007 Barry Barish The role of industries during the ILC engineering design phase Ken Olsen, President of the LCFOA To strengthen our efforts for the ILC engineering design phase, we intend to increase our focus on industrialisation. We recognise that in order to make realistic funding proposals to our governments, we […]