Director’s Corner 10 September 2009 Barry Barish A new ILC baseline and global consensus One of our proudest accomplishments in the Global Design Effort has been the global process by which we created the ILC reference design. This was a fundamental success resulting from how we organised ourselves and the process we used in making […]
Keeping up with ILC technical progress
Director’s Corner 3 September 2009 Barry Barish Keeping up with ILC technical progress One of my major challenges in writing this weekly column is tailoring it to an audience that ranges from scientifically interested outsiders to technical experts who are members of the Global Design Effort. From the recent ILC NewsLine survey we know that […]
The beauty of international collaboration
Director’s Corner 27 August 2009 Jean-Pierre Delahaye The beauty of international collaboration Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Jean-Pierre Delahaye, CLIC study leader and latest addition to the GDE Executive Committee. As a newcomer to the ILC GDE Executive Committee (EC), which I feel is a great honour, I have been kindly (but firmly) […]
Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab
Director’s Corner 20 August 2009 Barry Barish Stimulus funds for SCRF at Fermilab Today’s column is jointly authored by Bob Kephart, Fermilab ILC Program Director, and Barry Barish, GDE Director Five years ago today, the International Technology Review Committee (ITRP) made their recommendation that the design of the International Linear Collider (ILC) should be based […]
ALCPG09 in Albuquerque
Director’s Corner 13 August 2009 Barry Barish ALCPG09 in Albuquerque Both the ILC detector and accelerator communities are dispersed all around the globe. We work together mostly at a distance though extensive use of modern communication tools. Nevertheless, we still must – and do – come together in classical face-to-face meetings to conduct our most […]
Particle Physics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan
Director’s Corner 6 August 2009 Barry Barish Particle Physics at Academia Sinica in Taiwan As a global effort, we are committed to integrating particle physicists from the worldwide community into the ILC physics detector and accelerator design efforts, as well as developing institutional roles for countries that have a significant particle physics programme. Last month, […]
Global effort for high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities
Director’s Corner 30 July 2009 Akira Yamamoto Global effort for high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Akira Yamamoto, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. I would like to thank Barry Barish for his 9 July Director’s Corner where he described the importance of and progress in the ILC superconducting […]
Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration
Director’s Corner 23 July 2009 Barry Barish Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration The main thrust of our ILC accelerator design work during the Technical Design Phase (TDP-1 and TDP-2) is to refine the design presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) towards a more coherent […]
Students admitted to LC accelerator school
Director’s Corner 16 July 2009 Barry Barish Students admitted to LC accelerator school Preparations continue toward our "Fourth International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders" to be held from 7 to 18 September in Beijing, China. The school continues to draw a large applicant pool as we received a total of 244 applications from 41 countries, […]
Improvements in high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities
Director’s Corner 9 July 2009 Barry Barish Improvements in high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities Developing high-gradient superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) nine-cell cavities is one of the primary goals of our global R&D programme. Soon after we initiated the Global Design Effort (GDE) R&D and design programme for the International Linear Collider, we set the ambitious goal of […]