For a very large potential project like the ILC, costs are obviously a very big issue. Reliably costing such large projects with ambitious new technologies, in advance of having a detailed technical design and implementation plan, is a real challenge. In addition, costing is done differently in different countries, making it particularly difficult to provide […]
Particle physics: opportunities for the future
Last week in this column I discussed a special tribute to the Tevatron made at the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society conference at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 9-13 August. This week I will share some of the key points I made in my concluding remarks for […]
Celebrating the Tevatron
The Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society held a major conference for the field at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island from 9-13 August. A very interesting feature of the meeting was a celebration of the Tevatron, in anticipation of its being turned off later this month. The CERN Large […]
Technical baseline reviews: damping rings
Over the past two years, the GDE has concentrated its efforts on advancing critical ILC R&D in order to reduce risks and to demonstrate performance. In parallel, we have established a new, more coherent and more cost-effective baseline to be used for the next phase of developing the technical design that will be incorporated in […]
Thank you, ILC, too!
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Peter H. Garbincius, recent Global Design Effort Cost Manager
International…Linear…Collider International is the key word. At least in the area of elementary particle physics, the ILC has been the first accelerator mega-project intended to have global participation directly from its conception. Its scope requires international participation, which also demands global understanding and cooperation. What a great concept…if only countries and different peoples could learn […]
GDE Executive Committee meeting at Caltech
The GDE Executive Committee held an important face-to-face meeting at Caltech in the US from 19 – 20 July 2011. Having established the new baseline for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) this past spring, the meeting concentrated on detailed planning for R&D, design and the actual scope and content of the report, which is […]
Extending the energy reach of the ILC
The GDE design for the ILC as presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) is for an electron-positron colliding beam facility having a maximum centre-of-mass energy of 500 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). No design or upgrade path to 1 teraelectronvolt (TeV) was presented in the RDR. However, the option to upgrade to higher energies was explicitly maintained […]
Thanks, Peter!
In 2005, I appointed three cost engineers, Wilhelm Bialowons (DESY), Tetsuo Shidara (KEK) and Peter Garbincius (Fermilab) to work together to develop the methodology and to perform an international VALUE costing of the reference design for the ILC. Peter and his cost engineering colleagues did an outstanding job of costing the ILC as a global […]
The mass production of SRF linac cavities
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
A significant fraction of ILC R&D has focused on the production of accelerating cavities, which requires a thorough understanding of the behaviour and properties of niobium, the metal of choice for ILC cavities. The 2007 ILC Reference Design Report showed that the better part of the construction project effort will be taken up by comparatively […]
ILC accelerator interim report elicits positive responses
Despite the various ups and downs in resources to support the ILC R&D and design programmes, the Global Design Effort has been able to continue to make impressive progress towards establishing ILC design parameters and technologies. In our new report, we present results that demonstrate superconducting radiofrequency high-gradient technology consistent with our goals, outline results […]