We are turning the last corner towards the completion of Detailed Baseline Design (DBD), which we plan to complete at the end of the year together with the Global Design Effort’s Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC accelerator. In a few weeks each of the two detector groups will submit a detailed outline of […]
The Higgs mandate
This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Asia
The joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and GDE meeting on Linear Collider (KILC12) will be held in Daegu, Korea, from 23 to 27 April 2012. The timing of the workshop is likely to be just after the first combined result on the Higgs particle by two LHC experiments, ATLAS and CMS, is announced at […]
Design report in the making: drafting the DBD
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
Detector R&D “coopetition” between ILC and CLIC
In a recent seminar by the CERN Director of Research and Computing, Sergio Bertolucci, I heard for the first time the word “coopetition”. To my knowledge, it is an invented word that doesn’t yet exist in the English dictionary. He used it to illustrate the type of collaboration that is currently performed by the LHC […]
Articulating the physics case for the ILC
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Michael Peskin, convener of the Physics Common Task Group and of the group preparing the physics chapter of the Detailed Baseline Design report.
The Global Design Effort (GDE) has promised to submit the ILC Technical Design Report by the end of 2012. To accompany this document, the physics and detector community is preparing the Detailed Baseline Design report (DBD). That report will discuss the physics measurements to be carried out at the ILC, present the detailed technical designs […]
Progress made during LCWS11 in Granada
In Granada, Spain from 26-30 September, LCWS11 was held jointly between ILC and CLIC for the second time following the Geneva workshop last year. Regarding ILC physics and detector activity, good progress was made and a number of steps were taken for the completion of the detailed baseline design report (DBD). There were many meetings […]
Past and future of the Worldwide Study
As we prepare for another linear collider workshop (the 13th LCWS in the 30-year series) and contemplate the ILC reorganisation and next steps following the Technical Design Report and the Detailed Baseline Design Report, I have recently found myself thinking back on the history of the Worldwide Study (WWS) and the valuable role it has […]
The impact of ILC detector R&D
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Marcel Demarteau, chair and convener of the ILC Detector Common Task Group
Although the actual construction date of the ILC accelerator and its detectors is very uncertain, the impact of the R&D for ILC detectors is very real. We are so immersed in our day-to-day activities, in the analysis of physics and test beam data, in our struggles to obtain funding, that we tend to overlook the […]
Important meetings to come, important discussions to happen
Summer is a season for big international conferences for high-energy particle physics. Communication tools are highly developed today and any news can spread around the world within a few minutes. Nevertheless, summer conferences are special. Each experimental group concentrates a great deal of effort to prepare the latest, hottest results for these conferences, and the […]
The gift of research rises from the rubble
This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the World Wide Study and regional detector contact for Asia.
On 11 March, the three-day symposium on detector R&D for the International Linear Collider at KEK, Japan, came to a close. It was the final annual meeting of the five-year programme sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), which had been supporting a large part of Japanese ILC detector activities in recent […]