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 […]
As we approach the final stages of the work of the Global Design Effort, we have been simultaneously assembling a very solid Technical Design Report that could be used as the basis of a construction proposal, while at the same time helping set the stage for the next steps towards an ILC. The next steps […]
A first panel discussion on what will be required to provide scientific justification for the International Linear Collider was held at the LCSW11 workshop in Granada, Spain, in September 2011. That lively discussion could be characterised by expressions of a broad set of opinions, but most of the panelists and audience stated that if the […]
A workshop organised by the Asian Committee on Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) was held in Daegu, Korea from 23 to 27 April 2012. The central emphasis of this workshop was the final discussions of the technical systems for the ILC, before we launch full-fledged into producing the Technical Design […]
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Gerry Dugan, Americas Region Cost Manager
The cost estimate for the ILC that will accompany the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) is intended to be a credible, comprehensive, and well-documented presentation of the costs associated with the ILC design as described in the TDR. To provide the cost information in a format which is useful for all regional partners, the estimate […]
The ILC initiative is unique in many ways, but perhaps the most striking characteristic is that it is truly a global effort having no home laboratory to support or guide its efforts. Instead, scientific guidance comes from the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), currently chaired by Pier Oddone, through its subcommittee, the International Linear […]
I was thrilled to learn that the American Institute of Physics had awarded the Tate Medal for 2011 to Jean Trân Thanh Vân. Tran epitomises global science, and both physics (especially high-energy physics) and his native country of Vietnam are greatly indebted to him for his dedication to bringing leading physicists from around the world […]
Since the inception of the ILC design effort, we have been developing the concepts for detectors to do the science as an integral part of our work. The interactions between the accelerator and the detectors are complex and demanding. For that reason, we have a group of accelerator and detector experts working together on machine-detector […]
The fourth Baseline Technical Review, held at CERN on 22 and 23 March, focused on conventional facilities and siting. All significant changes to the 2007 Reference Design Report (RDR) baseline were reviewed and evaluated for impacts on performance, cost and related systems. This was the last of the formal reviews of the Technical Design Report […]
This week’s issue features a Director's Corner from Brian Foster, Global Design Effort European Regional Director
When I was a young postdoc, the only roadmaps I was familiar with were useful for planning vacations. In particle physics, we didn’t necessarily know where we were going but we still seemed to reach our goals with the vehicles to hand: PETRA at DESY, to discover the gluon, SppbarS (or SPS) at CERN, to […]