Director’s Corner 8 February 2007 Barry Barish Report from Beijing: The ILC Reference Design Report The GDE’s first major goal was to define the basic parameters and layout for the ILC and document them in a Baseline Configuration Document (BCD). We achieved this at the first GDE meeting held at INFN, Frascati, Italy, in December […]
The Evolving ILC Design: Push-Pull Detector Arrangement
Director’s Corner 1 February 2007 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Push-Pull Detector Arrangement "The full realization of the scientific potential of the ILC argues for the construction and operation of two complementary detectors by two international collaborations." This statement comes from a chapter of the soon to be released ILC Detector Concept Report (DCR), […]
The Machine Advisory Committee Reviews the ILC Reference Design
Director’s Corner 25 January 2007 Barry Barish The Machine Advisory Committee Reviews the ILC Reference Design Our steady march toward completion and release of the ILC Reference Design Report (RDR) continued into the New Year with a Machine Advisory Committee review on 10-12 January. This important review took place in advance of our planned release […]
Japan HEP Community Promotes a Future Strategy for Particle Physics
Director’s Corner 11 January 2007 Barry Barish Japan HEP Community Promotes a Future Strategy for Particle Physics Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director, discussed the community-wide consensus on priorities for the future programme in high energy physics in Japan in the Director’s Corner of 22 November 2006. At that time, there was only a Japanese […]
Cost Estimating the ILC Reference Design
Director’s Corner 4 January 2007 Barry Barish Cost Estimating the ILC Reference Design One of the most important goals of the ILC Reference Design is to understand enough about costs to provide a reliable indication of the project’s scale and as importantly, to provide information and tools that will help guide the engineering design phase. […]
The Evolving ILC Design: Centralising the Injectors
Director’s Corner 21 December 2006 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Centralising the Injectors I report today on another design change that has resulted from our ongoing cost to performance optimisation studies, which we are carrying out before finalising the ILC reference design. In my column from 5 October 2006, I described advances in our […]
Parameters for the Linear Collider – An Update
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 […]
FALC — Whats in the Name
Director’s Corner 30 November 2006 Barry Barish FALC — What’s in the Name? I attended a meeting hosted by KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan on 19 November of the "Funding Agencies for Large Colliders" (FALC), previously known as "Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider." The change of names for FALC has caused more than a […]
The Evolving ILC Design: Lowering Detectors from the Surface
Director’s Corner 16 November 2006 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Lowering Detectors from the Surface On 2 November, right before the very successful GDE meeting that has just concluded in Valencia, Spain, we officially made another important change to the ILC baseline design. Instead of assembling the detectors in their final resting place, they […]
Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D
Director’s Corner 2 November 2006 Barry Barish Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D Reaching the science goals for the ILC will require that both the collider performance and the capabilities of the detectors be consistent with the parameters set out by the ILCSC parameters group. For the ILC detectors, this will require improvements in […]