Director’s Corner17 November 2005 Barry Barish Progress with the BCDToday I am going to give an update on our progress towards the Baseline Configuration Document (BCD). The major goal of the GDE this calendar year is to produce a baseline configuration for the ILC and to document it by the end of 2005. This configuration […]
Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider
Director’s Corner10 November 2005 Barry Barish Funding Agencies for the Linear ColliderAll of us recognize that the ILC will be too expensive to be undertaken by one country or even probably, by one region. For that reason, ground-breaking steps have been taken to internationalize the effort from the very beginning. This means the parameters of […]
Cape Town
Director’s Corner 3 November 2005 Barry Barish Cape Town Last week, I visited Cape Town, South Africa with Jonathan Dorfan, a native of Cape Town, and Shin-ichi Kurokawa. For different reasons, each of us participated in the 25th General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) on 25-28 October 2005. Just to […]
Positron Production
Director’s Corner27 October 2005 Barry Barish Last week I discussed the recommendation from Snowmass for the baseline electron source to be used for the linear collider reference design, and today I will briefly discuss the more challenging positron source. One of the consequences of having made the choice of superconducting RF technology for the main […]
Electron Source
Director’s Corner20 October 2005 Barry Barish As I have discussed the past couple of weeks, the baseline ILC design will be guided and flow from a set of overall requirements. These requirements began from the science goals or requirements that were then translated into technical requirements for an accelerator. With these requirements established, the choices […]
Global Group 1
Director’s Corner13 October 2005 Barry Barish As I discussed in this column last week, the starting point for us in determining the baseline configuration for the ILC is a set of top-level physics parameters agreed to by the global community and contained in a report created by an international ICFA / ILCSC subcommittee dated September […]
Parameters for the Linear Collider
Director’s Corner 6 October 2005 The main goal of the GDE this fall is to determine a baseline configuration for the ILC. This baseline will serve as the basis for the reference design process that we will carry out next year. I plan to describe our process and outline some of the key issues that we […]
Partnerships with Industry
Director’s Corner29 September 2005 Barry Barish It is important for all of us who are developing the technologies, designs and plans for the ILC to recognize that the majority of the construction of the actual machine will be done by industry. This will be true for constructing the conventional facilities, for fabricating the superconducting RF […]
External Entities
Director’s Corner22 September 2005 Barry Barish My job as GDE Director has been defined by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) in the Annex of the MOU between collaborating institutions. This document, which is still being finalized, lists as one of my responsibilities in Section 5.3 of the Annex “he/she will be the primary […]
15 September 2005
Director’s Corner15 September 2005 Barry Barish Snowmass is now behind us and we are ready to begin to assess the outcomes from that successful workshop and to move on to our challenging next goal for this fall, to create a baseline configuration and alternatives for the ILC. These will be documented in what we are […]