Around the World Ni Hao! View some highlights from the Beijing ILC Workshop. More than two hundred scientists and engineers travelled around the globe this past week to attend the 2007 Beijing ILC Workshop at IHEP. The meeting kicked off with GDE Director Barry Barish releasing the draft Reference Design Report and preliminary cost estimate […]
From Interactions.org: ICFA Releases GDE Reference Design Report for the International Linear Collider
Beijing, China – The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) today announced the release of the Reference Design Report (RDR) for the International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed future particle accelerator. Hurling some 10 billion electrons and their anti-particles, positrons, toward each other at nearly the speed of light, beams in the ILC will collide […]
Report from Beijing: The ILC Reference Design Report
Director’s Corner 8 February 2007 Barry Barish Report from Beijing: The ILC Reference Design Report The GDE’s first major goal was to define the basic parameters and layout for the ILC and document them in a Baseline Configuration Document (BCD). We achieved this at the first GDE meeting held at INFN, Frascati, Italy, in December […]