Carlo Pagani of INFN will lecture on ILC cryomodules. Andrei Seryi of SLAC will lecture on beam delivery. After more than two months of intensive work, the Curriculum Committee has selected a group of 21 lecturers from around the world to teach at the International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders. Scheduled for 19-27 May 2006, the […]
Algorithms Flow at Detector Simulation Workshop
Last month in Boulder, Colorado, about 30 scientists shared ideas and worked together on software problems at the American Linear Collider Physics Group Detector Simulation Workshop. “This was a software mini-workshop.”, said SLAC’s Norman Graf who was a member of the workshop’s Organizing Committee, together with Uriel Nauenberg and Stephen Wagner of the University of Colorado […]
Review of the French ILC Detector R&D
The French ILC community held a SOCLE meeting (Seminar Oriented towards a Contribution to an Electron Linear Collider) in Lyon on 12-13 January 2006. More than 70 participants attended a review of the ongoing ILC detector R&D effort in CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA/DAPNIA laboratories. Future prospects and organisation aspects were discussed. Software tools dedicated to physics […]
Finding the nano-size beam
The International Linear Collider (ILC) interaction region beam sizes and component position stability requirements will be as small as a few nanometers. Making a head-on collision with a few nanometers beams, each beam travelling across some 20 km in the linear accelerator, is a bit like colliding two baseballs — one thrown from earth and […]
GDE Area System Leaders Meet in KEK
The GDE Executive Committee, Area System Leaders, and Chairmen of the Change Control and Design & Cost Boards met in the KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan (19-20 January 2006). (See this weeks Director’s Corner) Technical and cost discussions included the configuration of the main linac unit, the overall machine layout, including site dependent differences, and […]
Role of the LHC/ILC Study Group
Since spring 2002, a working group chaired by UK theorist Georg Weiglein (IPPP, Durham) has been working out how to strengthen the interplay between the LHC and the ILC and how the physics outcome of both machines can be optimized. “The combined studies carried out by the LHC/ILC Study Group open up a new kind […]
Progress Made on ILC Test Area at Fermilab
At Fermilab, the last year was a busy one for the team that gutted out the New Muon and Meson buildings, preparing them to be test areas for the ILC and Proton Driver. Formerly known as the Superconducting Module and Test Facility (SMTF), the renovated space is now called the ILC Test Area (ILCTA -Meson […]
Change Control Board Moves Forward with Finalizing BCD
As the Baseline Configuration Document (BCD) becomes semi-stabilized, the canonical mission of the Change Control Board (CCB) is to act as a body to make decisions on important changes to the baseline configuration, if and when necessary. Nobu Toge is assigned to chair this board. “The most important element is to ensure the transparency and […]
Fermilab’s Garbincius Chairs GDE Design Cost Board
Last month in Frascati, GDE Director Barry Barish announced the establishment of the Design Cost Board with Fermilab’s Peter Garbincius as chairperson. The primary role of this board is to oversee the preparation of the Reference Design Report, a document to be developed by the end of 2006, which will include a detailed design and […]
Frascati Meeting Concludes with BCD Recommendations and New GDE Structure
Following last week’s meeting in Frascati, the GDE members and other attendees returned this week with only a few minor bumps and bruises from an onslaught of “rotten tomatoes”. “I was afraid that each speaker would need a flak jacket to present each portion of the Baseline Configuration Document because this is the chance for […]