The Global Design Effort (GDE) has successfully completed the R&D programme outlined back in 2006, and with the Technical Design Report (TDR) effectively complete and a cost estimate based on the TDR design done, the future programme must be addressed. The major new factor is the very real possibility that Japan may proceed with a […]
Forming a united front of the LC physics and detector community
The Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC) officially started at the Vancouver Linear Collider Board (LCB) meeting in February 2013, and the new organisation is slowly taking shape. I was appointed Associate Director for the Physics & Detector portion of the new structure. LCC director Lyn Evans told us that he thought the task assigned to this […]
ILC TDR cost under review
The final deliverable of the Global Design Effort, the ILC Technical Design Report, was completed and submitted in draft form to the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) in November 2012. Following a successful technical review in December, an international cost review of the TDR ILC value estimate was chaired by Norbert Holtkamp of SLAC […]
From technology to diplomacy
Let me take this opportunity to acknowledge the enormous achievement of the very small GDE team, led by Barry Barish. They have produced the Technical Design Report, which has been favourably reviewed by an independent expert committee. The TDR also contains a detailed cost estimate which has also been independently reviewed and has proved to […]
A time of transition, or When men and mountains meet
The past few years, we have made a great deal of progress in developing and demonstrating the enabling technologies needed for a linear collider for the two concepts that are being pursued: the International Linear Collider (ILC), based on Superconducting RF acceleration; and a potentially higher-energy option, the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC), based on […]
TDR review season is underway
The final deliverable for the Global Design Effort (GDE) is the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC. We completed a draft TDR last November and submitted it for review. The accelerator volumes of the TDR consist of one volume on the R&D programme accomplishments and future programme and a second volume on the ILC […]
2013: The year of the snake or the “What if?”
We are beginning the new year of 2013 with the draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) almost complete. The ILC cost estimates are about to be critically reviewed and the organisations such as the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) and the Global Design Effort (GDE) will be handing over responsibility for the leadership […]
Happy New Year! Reflections on 2012
Last year was an especially exciting year for particle physics with the discovery of a 126-GeV particle that appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson. This event is likely to be the most important discovery in decades: the observation of a new kind of particle that signals the mechanism for creating mass in the universe. […]
Mitigating electron cloud effects for the ILC
The next generation of particle accelerators will contain intense bunches of particle beams. These intense beams have the disadvantage that they create electron clouds that result from beam scattering off residual molecules in the vacuum chambers. The concern is that the presence of electron clouds can reduce performance by scattering and defocusing the incoming particle […]
CLIC reaches a milestone
It is reporting season. As you all know the ILC community is hard at work producing the Technical Design Report that also includes the Detector Baseline Design reports. Similarly, the CLIC collaboration with associated Detector and Physics studies group have been hard at work completing the CLIC Conceptual Design Report (CDR). The three CDR volumes […]