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Global Design Effort optimises industralisation models

This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.

| 26 May 2011

As part of Technical Design Phase 2, the Global Design Effort (GDE) has been working towards more realistic and cost-effective industrialisation models for the production of superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavities and cryomodules, as these are primary cost drivers in the ILC construction estimate. The most important issue to be explored is how to distribute and […]

Preparing for SCRF industrialisation

| 3 March 2011

The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators with the specific mandate to develop a design for the ILC based on superconducting radiofrequency acceleration. One of the earliest goals of the GDE was to pursue an aggressive R&D programme to develop high-gradient cavities. We set an ambitious goal of […]

Superconducting RF cavity industrialisation

| 17 June 2010

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 […]

Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab

| 20 August 2009

Director’s Corner 20 August 2009 Barry Barish Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab Today’s column is jointly authored by Bob Kephart, Fermilab ILC Program Director, and Barry Barish, GDE Director Five years ago today, the International Technology Review Committee (ITRP) made their recommendation that the design of the International Linear Collider (ILC) should be based […]

Progress in the SCRF technical area

| 30 October 2008

Director’s Corner 30 October 2008 Akira Yamamoto Progress in the SCRF technical area Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. As one of Project Managers for the ILC I was been given the current task of overseeing superconducting radiofrequency technology (SCRF) in August 2007, and it […]

Globalising R&D

| 15 May 2008

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 […]