Research Director’s Report 17 September 2009 Sakue Yamada Validation made of the Letters of Intent ILC physics and detector community took a big step in August. The International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) gave me a detailed report of their examination for the validation of the three Letters of Intents (LOIs) on 17 August. I wish […]
Planning for the next steps
Research Director’s Report20 August 2009 Sakue Yamada Planning for the next stepsSoon the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) will give me their recommendations on the validation of the three submitted Letters of Intent (LOI) after completing their very intensive and detailed examinations on them. It is time for us to prepare for the next step, […]
Spreading the excitement of discovery
Research Director’s Report16 July 2009 Jim Brau Spreading the excitement of discoveryThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.Why is the down quark’s charge precisely one-third that of the electron? This is a remarkable relationship that challenged high school physics teachers […]
Detector activities reviewed by the PAC
Research Director’s Report18 June 2009 Sakue Yamada Detector activities reviewed by the PAC On 9 and 10 May, the second review meeting of the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILC was held in Vancouver. Its first meeting was last year in October when we were about to complete the entire framework of the detector […]
CLIC-ILC collaborations on detectors
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Letters of Intent were submitted
Research Director’s Report16 April 2009 Sakue Yamada Letters of Intent were submittedThe three ILC detector concept groups, ILD, SiD and 4th, submitted their Letters of Intent (LOIs) by the due date, 31 March. Having observed the intense efforts during the past few months, I sincerely congratulate these groups for having completed the document in time. […]
Physics and detectors at TILC09
Research Director’s Report19 March 2009 Hitoshi Yamamoto Physics and detectors at TILC09This month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Hitoshi Yamamoto, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Asia.I am writing this column for the first time as one of the three regional contacts who serve under the ILC research director Sakue […]
What’s going on in the Physics and Experiment Board meeting
Research Director’s Report19 February 2009 Sakue Yamada What’s going on in the Physics and Experiment Board meetingSince the LCWS08 meeting in Chicago, the management mechanism for the ILC detector activities is working in its full shape. The most important body for communication and decision making is the Physics and Experiment Board (PEB). It is composed […]
Cautious optimism for US-university detector R&D funding
Research Director’s Report22 January 2009 Jim Brau Cautious optimism for US-university detector R&D fundingThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for the Americas.Several recent positive developments are moving us forward on the path towards realising the ILC. These include excellent detector R&D results […]
Common task groups are underway
Research Director’s Report18 December 2008 Sakue Yamada Common task groups are underway The detector management scheme began to move in full size since the 2008 Linear Collider Workshop (LCWS08) in Chicago. The central decision-making mechanism is the Physics and Experiment Board consisting of the Executive Board members (namely, the research director and the regional contacts), […]