Summer is a season for big international conferences for high-energy particle physics. Communication tools are highly developed today and any news can spread around the world within a few minutes. Nevertheless, summer conferences are special. Each experimental group concentrates a great deal of effort to prepare the latest, hottest results for these conferences, and the […]
Determining the cost of the ILC detectors
The two detector designs for the ILC are now elaborated by the ILD and SiD groups toward the Detailed Baseline Design Report (DBD). When the Letters of Intent (LOI) were called in 2007, the guideline said, “The LOI will not represent any formal commitment of the groups signing it to the project or to the […]
Planning the Detailed Baseline Design Report
In late 2009, the physics common task group (CTG) proposed a set of new benchmark reactions, which were needed in the work-plan towards the Baseline Design Report. They were chosen to demonstrate the physics possibilities of the ILC and the capability of the detectors, and were based on various physics prospects. The list included a […]
New regional contact from Europe
First of all a Happy New Year to all readers! We have now come over the middle point of the Letters-of-Intent (LOIs) process to produce a detailed baseline design (DBD) of the ILC detectors. The first half was very productive. Much work on detector R&D and physics simulation is now being continued to be integrated […]
White paper on Comprehensive Project Design Guidance
Research Director’s Report 21 October 2010 Sakue Yamada White paper on Comprehensive Project Design GuidanceRecently the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) published a white paper on the Comprehensive Project Design Guidance (CPDG), which describes the direction of the activity to promote ILC in its post-technical design phase beyond 2012. The document was proposed by […]
What will happen after the DBD
Research Director’s Report19 August 2010 Sakue Yamada What will happen after the DBDRight now, the two detector groups are striving to update their detector concepts towards the detailed baseline design (DBD) aimed to be completed in 2012. This includes many activities such as component R&D, integration of the components of detectors and further into the […]
ILC Detectors: more news since last IDAG meeting
Research Director’s Report17 June 2010 Sakue Yamada ILC Detectors: more news since last IDAG meetingWe have gained several helpful inputs from the new system of the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) monitoring global detectors after the validation. The IDAG report after the Beijing meeting suggests several new measures. Even during the discussion, we already received […]
New moves for the physics and detector activity
Research Director’s Report 15 April 2010 Sakue Yamada New moves for the physics and detector activity A joint international linear collider workshop, LCWS10 and ILC10, held in Beijing last month, initiated various new moves for the physics and detector activity of ILC. While we often make phone-conferences, such a meeting is valuable so that everybody […]
Detector groups work out their work plans
Research Director’s Report 18 February 2010 Sakue Yamada Detector groups work out their work plans In my report of last December, I wrote about detector activities in the new phase after validation. One of them was the effort of the two detector groups, ILD and SiD, to make the work plans towards their detailed baseline […]
Detector activities in the new stage
Research Director’s Report17 December 2009 Sakue Yamada Detector activities in the new stageThe physics and detector activity for the ILC entered into a new stage after the validation of the Letters of Intent (LOIs) and following discussions during the American Linear Collider Physics Group (ALCPG) workshop in Albuquerque, US. Close to the turn of the […]