Director’s Corner 16 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline: single main linac tunnel Two weeks ago I described the motivation and the process for evolving the baseline for the technical design we are undertaking over the next two years. That work will culminate in a Technical Design Report (TDR) at the end of […]
Evolving the ILC baseline
Director’s Corner 2 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline I have officially approved two major changes in the ILC baseline configuration for the next phase of our R&D and design work. Last year, the Global Design Effort project managers proposed a set of changes to the ILC baseline, called "SB2009", aimed at improving […]
Flexibility in the ILC design
Director’s Corner 24 June 2010 Ewan Paterson Flexibility in the ILC design Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner by Ewan Paterson, member of the Global Design Effort Executive Committee.In a new large accelerator complex which will take years to get approved and constructed, one must maintain some degree of flexibility in its design as many […]
Optimising the value of the ILC
Research Director’s Report21 January 2010 Jim Brau Optimising the value of the ILCThis 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 years ago (in 2003), the parameters for the linear collider were defined by the ILCSC Parameters Committee chaired by Rolf […]
Evolving the ILC baseline
Director’s Corner 14 January 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline Over the past year, the ILC project managers have led a focussed effort to assess the ILC baseline configuration that is documented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) and as a result have developed a set of proposed baseline changes that are aimed at […]
Happy New Year
Director’s Corner 5 January 2006 Barry Barish Happy New Year As this New Year begins, I would like to briefly remark on our progress and status to date, as we begin to undertake a new set of tasks and goals for 2006. During this past year, the GDE was formed, first by my appointment as […]
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 […]
Change Control Board
Director’s Corner 15 December 2005 Barry Barish Change Control Board Last week at Frascati, we successfully established the baseline configuration that will serve as the basis for the ILC reference design and costing to be carried out next year. There was consensus on most decisions. I would characterize the final configuration as somewhat conservative, […]
Progress with the BCD
Director’s Corner17 November 2005 Barry Barish Progress with the BCDToday 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. This configuration […]
15 September 2005
Director’s Corner15 September 2005 Barry Barish Snowmass is now behind us and we are ready to begin to assess the outcomes from that successful workshop and to move on to our challenging next goal for this fall, to create a baseline configuration and alternatives for the ILC. These will be documented in what we are […]