The fourth Baseline Technical Review, held at CERN on 22 and 23 March, focused on conventional facilities and siting. All significant changes to the 2007 Reference Design Report (RDR) baseline were reviewed and evaluated for impacts on performance, cost and related systems. This was the last of the formal reviews of the Technical Design Report […]
Baseline Technical Review for ILC superconducting RF systems
The final preparatory step in our process of defining the baseline for the Technical Design Report (TDR) is to carry out a set of four Baseline Technical Reviews (BTR) that concentrate on the large number of small technical decisions that remain to be defined for the TDR baseline. We previously made a set of top-level […]
BTR meeting groupies
Image: Nobu Toge KEK hosted the third ILC Baseline Technical Review meeting last month. Read more about the main linac and superconducting radiofrequency technology decisions in this issue’s Director’s Corner.
Timely Technical Review
The culmination of the work of the ILC Global Design Effort is to produce a Technical Design Report (TDR), which will be comprehensive and can be used as the basis of project proposals to collaborating governments. We are finalising the design that will be documented in the TDR as well as planning the pre-TDR R&D […]
Decisions, decisions, decisions
In ILC NewsLine last week, Nick Walker wrote a guest Director’s Corner where he outlined the steps to the Technical Design Report (TDR) and Barbara Warmbein wrote a feature article summarising some highlights of the Baseline Technical Review (BTR) meeting at DESY. Today, I write a third article on the same basic subject of how […]
Setting the stages for shorter bunches
ILC’s central region gets reviewed
Beam lines, extraction lines, supply lines, final focus, sources, dumps, tunnels, shafts and not to forget the detector hall – the ILC’s central region is a busy place. In a recent technical review held at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, systems like the electron source, the positron source, the connection from damping ring to main linac, […]