Barry Barish | 10 November 2005All of us recognize that the ILC will be too expensive to be undertaken by one country or even probably, by one region. For that reason, ground-breaking steps have been taken to internationalize the effort from the very beginning.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: FALC, funding agencies, ICFA
Barry Barish | 27 October 2005Last week I discussed the recommendation from Snowmass for the baseline electron source to be used for the linear collider reference design, and today I will briefly discuss the more challenging positron source.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: positron source
Barry Barish | 20 October 2005As I have discussed the past couple of weeks, the baseline ILC design will be guided and flow from a set of overall requirements. These requirements began from the science goals or requirements that were then translated into technical requirements for an accelerator.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: electron source
Barry Barish | 13 October 2005As I discussed in this column last week, the starting point for us in determining the baseline configuration for the ILC is a set of top-level physics parameters agreed to by the global community and contained in a report created by an international ICFA / ILCSC subcommittee dated September 30, 2003 and entitled, Parameters for the Linear Collider.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC parameters
Barry Barish | 6 October 2005The main goal of the GDE this fall is to determine a baseline configuration for the ILC. This baseline will serve as the basis for the reference design process that we will carry out next year.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: ILC parameters
Barry Barish | 22 September 2005My job as GDE Director has been defined by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee in the Annex of the MOU between collaborating institutions.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: HEPAP, ILCSC, P5
Barry Barish | 15 September 2005Snowmass is now behind us and we are ready to begin to assess the outcomes from that successful workshop and to move on to our challenging next goal for this fall, to create a baseline configuration and alternatives for the ILC.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: baseline configuration, ILC baseline