Director’s Corner 15 October 2009 Barry Barish CERN prepares for LHC commissioning Once again, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is moving to centre stage. The LHC is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator designed to collide protons at energies of 7 TeV per beam. Just about one year ago, as commissioning of this […]
Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee
Director’s Corner 8 October 2009 Barry Barish Toshiaki Tauchi, a would-be rocket scientist, joins the GDE Executive Committee The expansion of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee (EC) is complete. Today I announce that Toshiaki Tauchi has accepted my invitation and has joined the EC. I enthusiastically welcome him! I first announced my intent to […]
FALC meets in Quebec City
Director’s Corner 1 October 2009 Barry Barish FALC meets in Quebec City The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC) held its fifteenth meeting at Quebec City on 13 July 2009. FALC serves as the oversight committee for our Global Design Effort (GDE) on Resource Issues as well as meets to discuss more generally the status […]
Linear Collider Accelerator School underway in China
Director’s Corner 17 September 2009 Barry Barish Linear Collider Accelerator School underway in China I write this week’s column as a lecturer at the fourth International Linear Collider accelerator science school that is underway at the Hotel Jixian in Huairou, located in a beautiful isolated park-like area about one hour from Beijing, China. This is […]
A new ILC baseline and global consensus
Director’s Corner 10 September 2009 Barry Barish A new ILC baseline and global consensus One of our proudest accomplishments in the Global Design Effort has been the global process by which we created the ILC reference design. This was a fundamental success resulting from how we organised ourselves and the process we used in making […]
Keeping up with ILC technical progress
Director’s Corner 3 September 2009 Barry Barish Keeping up with ILC technical progress One of my major challenges in writing this weekly column is tailoring it to an audience that ranges from scientifically interested outsiders to technical experts who are members of the Global Design Effort. From the recent ILC NewsLine survey we know that […]
Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab
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 […]
ALCPG09 in Albuquerque
Director’s Corner 13 August 2009 Barry Barish ALCPG09 in Albuquerque Both the ILC detector and accelerator communities are dispersed all around the globe. We work together mostly at a distance though extensive use of modern communication tools. Nevertheless, we still must – and do – come together in classical face-to-face meetings to conduct our most […]
Particle Physics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan
Director’s Corner 6 August 2009 Barry Barish Particle Physics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan As a global effort, we are committed to integrating particle physicists from the worldwide community into the ILC physics detector and accelerator design efforts, as well as developing institutional roles for countries that have a significant particle physics programme. Last month, […]
Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration
Director’s Corner 23 July 2009 Barry Barish Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration The main thrust of our ILC accelerator design work during the Technical Design Phase (TDP-1 and TDP-2) is to refine the design presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) towards a more coherent […]