Director’s Corner 21 September 2006 Barry Barish The Evolving ILC Design: Changing the Crossing Angles Optimising cost to performance for the ILC design is a challenging task. Our working groups have identified a number of possible design changes, motivated by large potential cost savings. Changing the crossing angles for the final focus interaction regions is […]
To-Gakkai meets the ILC
Director’s Corner 14 September 2006 Mitsuaki Nozaki, GDE Asian Regional Director To-Gakkai meets the ILC Science is a great achievement of human endeavour and culture. Yet sometimes people get confused about the distinction between science and foolish ideas. Some of these outrageous opinions can be found on the internet, such as "Apollo never landed on […]
Developing an International Cost Estimate for the ILC
Director’s Corner 7 September 2006 Barry Barish Developing an International Cost Estimate for the ILC Our GDE team has about a third of its membership from the Americas, a third from Asia and a third from Europe. This "global" team developed a baseline configuration document (BCD) that lays out the technical description of the ILC, […]
Why Cost Confidentiality
Director’s Corner 31 August 2006 Barry Barish Why Cost Confidentiality? A central focus of the GDE at this time is determining the ILC cost in its present form. Over the next few months we will be doing selected studies to optimise the cost to performance. We have identified and are studying potential design changes, which […]
Revisiting the ILC Parameters
Director’s Corner 24 August 2006 Barry Barish Revisiting the ILC Parameters An innocent looking little document entitled "Parameters for the Linear Collider" dated 30 September 2003 has to a large extent determined the present baseline design of the ILC. We have used this document as if it were "a requirements document," and the baseline design […]
Happy Birthday GDE
Director’s Corner 17 August 2006 Barry Barish Happy Birthday GDE One year ago, most of the 49 newly appointed members of the Global Design Effort came to Snowmass, Colorado, for the International Linear Collider Workshop where they participated in our first GDE face-to-face meeting. On 16 August 2005, the GDE members trudged up the hill […]
More Reflections on VLCW06: The ILC Reference Design
Director’s Corner 10 August 2006 Barry Barish More Reflections on VLCW06: The ILC Reference Design Last week I discussed the physics and detector part of the joint American Linear Collider Planning Group (ALCPG) and GDE workshop (VLCW06) held in Vancouver from 19-23 July. The GDE portion of the meeting focused on preparations for the Reference […]
Reflections on VLCW06: Physics and Detectors
Director’s Corner 3 August 2006 Barry Barish presenting his closing plenary talk at VLCW06. Reflections on VLCW06: Physics and Detectors The University of British Columbia, located in beautiful Vancouver, was the venue of a joint American Linear Collider Planning Group (ALCPG) and GDE workshop, attended by 300 participants from 19-23 July. The programme ranged from […]
Building and Testing a String of Cryomodules – a Task for S2
Director’s Corner 27 July 2006 Barry Barish Building and Testing a String of Cryomodules – a Task for S2 An ambitious and crucial goal of the ILC R&D programme is to build and test a string of superconducting RF cryomodules that operate at or near the design gradient. Achieving such a milestone would help optimise […]
CERN Council launches European Strategy for particle physics
Director’s Corner 20 July 2006 Brian Foster CERN Council Launches European Strategy for Particle Physics Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Brian Foster, GDE European Regional Director. A new strategy document outlining the future directions for particle physics research in Europe was approved unanimously at a special meeting of the CERN Council in Lisbon […]