About Barry Barish
Barry Barish is the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside and Linde Professor, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2005 to 2013 he was Director of the Global Design Effort and, apart from leading the collaboration to the publication of the ILC's Technical Design Report, contributed more than 300 Director's Corners in the ILC Newsline.
Barry Barish | 3 August 2006
The University of British Columbia, located in beautiful Vancouver, was the venue of a joint American Linear Collider Planning Group ALCPG and GDE workshop, attended by 300 participants from 19-23 July.
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ILC reference design, physics and detectors, physics case, reference design, VLCWS06
Barry Barish | 27 July 2006
An ambitious and crucial goal of the ILC R&D programme is to build and test a string of superconducting RF cryomodules that operate at or near the design gradient.
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accelerator R&D, cryomodule string, S2, S2 task force
Barry Barish | 6 July 2006
The centerpiece of the ILC concept is the superconducting RF technology that will be used to accelerate electrons and positrons in the main linac.
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accelerating gradient, accelerator R&D, cavity gradient, S0, S0 task force, S1, S1 task force
Barry Barish | 29 June 2006
Not long after I became GDE Director, and even before I had recruited our initial design team, I gave a plenary talk on my ideas and plans for the ILC design effort at the Particle Accelerator Conference PAC05 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Japan, LC school, linear collider school, Sokendai
Barry Barish | 22 June 2006
Magnets that steer beams around a ring-shaped accelerator, that focus particle beams and that make various optical corrections are key to building such high-energy particle accelerators.
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magnet, magnet system, main linac
Barry Barish | 15 June 2006
This famous palindrome was purportedly spoken by Napoleon when referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him in 1814.
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KEK
Barry Barish | 1 June 2006
Last week I attended the meeting of the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider -- FALC -- at the INFN Headquarters in a historic building nestled in the small twisty streets near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in the heart of beautiful old Rome.
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FALC, INFN, Italy, Rome
Barry Barish | 25 May 2006
One of the most intriguing features of the ILC is its potential to act as a telescope to "explore energies a trillion times that of the accelerator itself, in the ultrahighenergy realm where physicists believe that all of natures forces become one."
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Quantum Universe
Barry Barish | 18 May 2006
Today we inaugurate a new look for the ILC website, as well as a new logo. We have strived to make our website as functional as possible, while also making it attractive.
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ILC logo
Barry Barish | 11 May 2006
One of the more difficult decisions we made last fall was which damping ring option to choose for our baseline. No recommendation came out of the Snowmass Workshop and our damping ring working group continued to study the question through much of the fall.
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baseline, damping ring, ILC baseline
