In ILC NewsLine last week, Nick Walker wrote a guest Director’s Corner where he outlined the steps to the Technical Design Report (TDR) and Barbara Warmbein wrote a feature article summarising some highlights of the Baseline Technical Review (BTR) meeting at DESY. Today, I write a third article on the same basic subject of how […]
“The GDE must write” – The first steps to the ILC Technical Design Report
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” Mark Twain “Scientists must write” was a particular mantra of one of my professors in my freshman year at university. He […]
FALC meets at CERN
The Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), an informal group of agency representatives, held its 19th meeting at CERN on 6 October. Since its inception, a central role of FALC has been to provide oversight for our efforts towards a linear collider, especially regarding resources. Over the years, FALC has expanded its scope to include […]
Breaking the speed limit of the universe?
Experimental physics plays many roles in advancing science. We make lots of measurements that help enable us to describe the physical world. We test theories and sometimes it leads to surprising discoveries that change our understanding of the physical world. Part of doing and advancing science is experimentally checking the correctness of our description of […]
A front row seat at the Granada linear collider workshop
With a watchful eye on the physics that is beginning to emerge from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland, as well as the process for updating the European strategy for particle physics, the lepton collider community is moving incrementally towards speaking with one voice! The International Workshop for Future Linear Colliders (LCWS11) held in […]
Thoughts from Granada – a view from the back of the room
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Mike Harrison, Americas Regional Director for the Global Design Effort
One of the most evident aspects of the recent LCWS11 meeting in Granada, Spain, was the fact that the linear collider community has developed a meaningful collective consciousness over the past several years as closer integration has taken hold. Granada was the second major joint workshop between the CLIC and ILC programmes following from CERN, […]
Japan Society for Promotion of Science supports ILC detector R&D
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) has awarded a new five-year award for ILC detector R&D. A kickoff meeting for this grant was held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan from 12-14 September. The new programme is descriptively entitled “a global R&D program of a state-of-the-art detector system for ILC.” The research […]
GDE position paper on post-TDR
The Global Design Effort (GDE) will complete the final deliverable in our mandate with the completion of the Technical Design Report (TDR). We intend to submit the TDR at the end of 2012, and with reviews and approval of the report, including required revisions, we expect our present task to be completed by about mid-2013. […]
The LHC performance and prospects
The Tevatron at Fermilab, US, was turned off last week and now the high energy frontier has officially moved across the Atlantic Ocean to CERN and its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland. We have great expectations for LHC physics, since historically higher energy has been our most effective probe to new discoveries in particle […]
The home stretch in fulfilling the Global Design Effort mandate
This week, linear collider scientists converge on Granada, Spain for the second International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. The conference is going well, with over 350 attendees discussing the future of particle physics, particularly with relation to how LHC results will guide the design of a next-generation collider. It is with this in the back […]