On 11 January 2010 the ILC Steering Committee and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC) Collaboration Board created a working group to exploit synergies and discuss general issues involving the linear collider. That group has met regularly throughout the last year and submitted an interim report to their respective oversight groups this month. So far, […]
A conversation about our future
The major activity for the Global Design Effort in January was centred on the second Baseline Assessment Workshop held at SLAC from 18 to 21 January. Nick Walker reported on the meeting in this column last week, and I will report on the proposed change actions as soon as they occur. But in addition, by […]
Taking heed of good advice
The most obvious benefit of the seemingly endless series of reviews we undergo comes from the rigours of doing our preparations. But the reviews also serve to validate our work, and perhaps most importantly, the review committees give us good advice in their reports. Last autumn, we had a two-day technical review of the Global […]
Common goals
Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
As a guest columnist for the Director’s Corner, it is my turn to supply this article approximately once every eleven months. Looking back I see that my last column was just before the LCWS 10 workshop held in Beijing. Interestingly enough, I now find myself on the tail end of another GDE workshop, the recent […]
What did we accomplish last year?
The ILC is still very much a dream and the path to a real project remains highly uncertain, even though the scientific case is as strong as ever and we continue to meet all our highest priority goals. Hopefully, the world political and economic climate will improve before too long and there will once again […]
Investing in particle physics
Happy New Year! This is my first column of 2011 and I am very pleased to begin the year by reporting on the significant new investment in particle physics by the Italian government. The Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research has announced the funding of the proposed €400-million Super B project of the Italian […]
Evolving the ILC baseline: single main linac tunnel
Director’s Corner 16 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline: single main linac tunnel Two weeks ago I described the motivation and the process for evolving the baseline for the technical design we are undertaking over the next two years. That work will culminate in a Technical Design Report (TDR) at the end of […]
Evolving the ILC baseline: main linac operating gradient
Director’s Corner 9 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline: main linac operating gradient Last week I described the motivation and the process for evolving the baseline for the technical design effort that we will be carrying out over the next two years, culminating in a Technical Design Report (TDR) at the end of […]
Evolving the ILC baseline
Director’s Corner 2 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline I have officially approved two major changes in the ILC baseline configuration for the next phase of our R&D and design work. Last year, the Global Design Effort project managers proposed a set of changes to the ILC baseline, called "SB2009", aimed at improving […]
The ILC-CLIC collaboration and technological challenges
Director’s Corner 24 November 2010 Kaoru Yokoya The ILC-CLIC collaboration and technological challengesToday’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Kaoru Yokoya, Global Design Effort Asian Regional Director. In recent years, the collaboration between the ILC and CLIC communities has developed and evolved, and Barry Barish has reported on this collaboration in previous corners. Working groups […]