I am pleased to announce the Sixth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders that will be held from 6 to 17 November 2011. The Global Design Effort has both been a sponsor and contributed lecturers to the first five schools in this series. The last school was held in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland last autumn. This year’s […]
One hundred years of superconductivity
This year is the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity, a state in some materials to conduct electricity without energy loss at very low temperatures. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes demonstrated the phenomenon of superconductivity in 1911 at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands when he observed the resistivity of mercury go to zero as […]
Positron source relocated to the end of the linac
Three major changes to the Reference Design Report (RDR) baseline have previously been adopted. Today, I announce the approval of the fourth and final top-level baseline change that has been proposed by the Global Design Effort project managers. The undulator-based positron source will be relocated from the 150 GeV energy point to the exit of […]
Low-power option adopted for ILC technical design baseline
Cost containment has been a consistent theme underlying proposals to define a new baseline for the technical design effort and report. Some changes are the result of further studies after we developed a reference design for the ILC, while others have required invoking some new ideas. One of the four major changes that were proposed […]
ILCSC reviews GDE progress and plans
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) that provides scientific oversight for the Global Design Effort (GDE), met in Beijing on 17 February 2011. Of special interest at this meeting were discussions of the future of the efforts towards the ILC, after the ILC Technical […]
Introducing the new ILC NewsLine
Welcome to the new ILC NewsLine! This is the first issue of a new style, with a modern look and feel, new logo, more cohesive page design and navigation, wider format, larger images and added features and functionalities. Since 2005, ILC NewsLine has been our main tool for communicating the continuous progress of our ILC […]
To our Japanese colleagues
FALC discusses future programmes in particle physics
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), an informal committee of particle physics funding agency representatives, held their eighteenth meeting at SLAC on 22 January 2010. I previously reported on an interesting exchange meeting between the Global Design Effort Executive Committee and FALC that took advantage of the fact that their meeting immediately followed our […]
Preparing for SCRF industrialisation
The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators with the specific mandate to develop a design for the ILC based on superconducting radiofrequency acceleration. One of the earliest goals of the GDE was to pursue an aggressive R&D programme to develop high-gradient cavities. We set an ambitious goal of […]
Interim report from the ILC-CLIC general issues group
On 11 January 2010 the ILC Steering Committee and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC) Collaboration Board created a working group to exploit synergies and discuss general issues involving the linear collider. That group has met regularly throughout the last year and submitted an interim report to their respective oversight groups this month. So far, […]