Marc Ross | 28 July 2011Niobium’s superconducting ability recommends it as a metal of choice for ILC accelerating cavities, but it brings challenges to the R&D table. Laboratories and industry alike work to set down the best possible, most cost-effective process for forming niobium into high-performing structures.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: cavity production, Cavity Production Pilot Plant, niobium
Barry Barish | 21 July 2011Following the recent release of the ILC accelerator interim report, The International Linear Collider: A Technical Progress Report, we have received positive and encouraging responses from the chairman and other members of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee, our scientific oversight committee. This interim report is a useful summary of our ILC R&D programme and accomplishments to date, in preparation for the ILC Technical Design Report, which we are on track to complete by the end of 2012.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILCSC, interim report, TDR, Technical Design Report
Barry Barish | 7 July 2011The ILC Program Advisory Committee met at Academia Sinica in Taiwan in May. In addition to their specific recommendations, they again urged development of a strategy for the post-2012 period, following completion of the accelerator Technical Design Report.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: DBD, ILCSC, PAC, PAC review, TDR
Barry Barish | 30 June 2011Shin-ichi Kurokawa, who has been so instrumental in developing the Asian collaboration for the Global Design Effort, was awarded the Rolf Widerøe Prize for outstanding work in the accelerator field by the European Physical Society Accelerator Group
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ACFA, ICFA, ILCSC, Rolf Widerøe Prize
