Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
“We are just standing at the entrance, and our world efforts need to continue or become even stronger.” These are the words Kaoru Yokoya used to close his ILC NewsLine Director’s Corner at the end of last year. (The italics are mine.) Six months later his words continue to ring true and are perhaps a […]
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
A significant fraction of ILC R&D has focused on the production of accelerating cavities, which requires a thorough understanding of the behaviour and properties of niobium, the metal of choice for ILC cavities. The 2007 ILC Reference Design Report showed that the better part of the construction project effort will be taken up by comparatively […]
Director’s Corner 30 September 2010 Marc Ross The ILC in a mountainous region – A report on Japanese efforts to develop possible sites Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Roughly six years ago the International Committee for Future Accelerators accepted the recommendation to adopt ‘cold’, […]
Director’s Corner 25 November 2009 Marc Ross What drives the development of technology? Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Five years ago, when superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) technology was chosen for the International Linear Collider, there were precious few high-gradient, 35-Megavolts-per-metre (MV/m) cavities. Now the picture […]
Director’s Corner 26 March 2009 Marc Ross Renewing links with superconducting cavity manufacturers Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. The most important performance parameter for a linear accelerator is its cost per electronvolt of accelerated beam, or cost per watt of delivered beam power. In […]
Director’s Corner 26 November 2008 Marc Ross Progress on our Technical Design Phase goals Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Last week several hundred scientists and engineers gathered at the new Forum Event Center of the University of Illinois at Chicago for LCWS 08 and […]
Project manager Marc Ross reports from CERN
The ILC-CLIC (International Linear Collider – Compact Linear Collider Study) collaboration was started earlier this year at CERN. It consists of five working groups which are led by conveners from both projects. Collaboration mandates and activities were defined with an eye toward this autumn’s workshops: the CLIC08 workshop, held at CERN from 14 to 17 […]
Director’s Corner 27 March 2008 Marc Ross The next step towards the ILC — building a truly global team Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. It has been roughly a year since the completion of the Reference Design Report (RDR) and the creation of a […]
Director’s Corner 30 August 2007 Marc Ross The ILC Engineering Design Phase – Towards the production of an Engineering Design Report Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. In August 2007, the Global Design Effort for the International Linear Collider published a Reference Design Report that […]