Barry Barish | 23 November 2005Reaching the luminosity goals of the ILC will be an enormous challenge. It will require producing nanometer scale beam spots at the collision point and a crucial element in achieving this will be to damp the beams that come from the electron and positron sources to have ultra-low emittance.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: damping ring
Barry Barish | 17 November 2005Today I am going to give an update on our progress towards the Baseline Configuration Document, BCD. The major goal of the GDE this calendar year is to produce a baseline configuration for the ILC and to document it by the end of 2005.
Category: Director's Corner | Tagged: baseline configuration, BCD
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
