One of the most important goals of the Global Design Effort has been to demonstrate that high-gradient cavities can be reliably produced in industry. We established two gradient goals: to produce cavities qualified at 35 Megavolts per metre (MV/m) in vertical tests and to demonstrate that an average gradient of 31.5 MV/m is achievable for […]
Special Linear Collider Event during the IEEE Symposium
The 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, together with the Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detectors was held in at the Disneyland Hotel (Anaheim California), from 29 October to 3 November. A feature of this year’s symposium was a “Special Linear Collider Event.” The […]
LCWS12 brings together CLIC and ILC communities
The third joint ILC and CLIC Study Workshop was held at the University of Texas, Arlington from 22 to 26 October 2012. This interesting meeting brought together a convergence between the exciting new LHC results on the discovery of a Higgs-like particle, the nearing completion of the ILC Technical Design Report and Detector Baseline Design […]
S1-Global – a plug-compatible ILC demonstration experiment
The S1-Global experiment was conceived to demonstrate the RF operation of an ILC cryomodule with an average accelerating gradient of 31.5 megavolts/metre (MV/m). The GDE Accelerator Advisory Panel, chaired by Bill Willis, identified it as one of our ILC demonstration experiments with high priority. S1-Global has been successfully completed and a detailed technical report has […]
A second snapshot of the evolving TDR draft
The Technical Design Report (TDR) will be the culmination and final deliverable for the Global Design Effort. The technical details of the baseline that is the basis of the TDR design were established and finalised last spring. At that time, report writing began on a schedule of producing a report that is in near-final form […]
HEPAP discusses reconfigured options for the proposed US long-baseline neutrino experiment
The future of the US high-energy physics (HEP) programme depends on having both viable collaborations on the leading worldwide projects, especially the LHC, and developing, in parallel, important new forefront facilities in the US. Fermilab and the US neutrino community are proposing to concentrate on the intensity frontier by developing next-generation long-baseline neutrino experiments (LBNE) […]
A potential US site for the ILC
One of the largest challenges in designing the ILC is maintaining the ability to site the facility in different countries with candidate sites that have very different characteristics. Our approach to taking this into account for the reference design was to develop a single baseline design having site requirements that could be satisfied by most […]
SLAC celebrates 50 years
SLAC has had a remarkable first 50 years, which were celebrated in a special event this past month. Although the theme of this event focused on the next 50 years, the achievements of the past inform the future plans and prospects. The physics achievements of SLAC were duly noted at the event by the American […]
Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Strategic planning has become central to organising and prioritising the worldwide programme in particle physics. In Europe, the process of developing an update to the “European Strategy for Particle Physics” is under way, while in Japan, KEK is updating their roadmap and in the US, the Snowmass workshop on the future of the US programme […]
ILCSC plans the future
In the wake of the discovery of a Higgs-like particle at CERN, the International Linear Collider Steering Committee met at ICHEP12 to orchestrate its own demise (and ours), while taking steps to put into place its (and our) replacements that will have the goal of making the linear collider the next global project in high-energy […]