One of the challenges involved in an international project is that of maintaining good communication among the collaboration members. While the detector community has learned over the years to adapt to this situation, typically accelerator design has been centred at a host laboratory that provided the technical leadership. The ILC design team with its global […]
Baseline Technical Review 4 – conventional and unconventional facilities
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 […]
Proposing a fishcake shape
Kamaboko is a type of Japanese fishcake with a distinctive loaf shape, usually served sliced thin with dipping sauce such as soy sauce and wasabi or as a topping for noodles. So what does kamaboko have to do with the ILC? It is the shape of the newly proposed ILC tunnel design for an Asian […]
Interim report from the ILC-CLIC general issues group
On 11 January 2010 the ILC Steering Committee and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC) Collaboration Board created a working group to exploit synergies and discuss general issues involving the linear collider. That group has met regularly throughout the last year and submitted an interim report to their respective oversight groups this month. So far, […]
Linear collider scientists tour the Mont Blanc tunnel
Tiny particles, producing brilliant collisions as they race around an underground tunnel, are the stars of an accelerator. It’s easy to forget that people, too, must make their way around the tunnel, and that their protection merits as much attention as do flying bits of matter. A group of scientists and engineers at the International […]
The ILC in a mountainous region
Director’s Corner 30 September 2010 Marc Ross The ILC in a mountainous region – A report on Japanese efforts to develop possible sites Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort. Roughly six years ago the International Committee for Future Accelerators accepted the recommendation to adopt ‘cold’, […]
Digging deep
Conventional facilities crew hooks up with European XFEL experts
The small town of Schenefeld just outside Hamburg in northern Germany isn’t exactly known for its sights or its tourism. Many Schenefeld citizens, however, have recently become tourists in their own neighbourhood: ever since the construction works for the European XFEL started on 8 January, the building site sees a steady flow of visitors stopping […]
The proposed Russian ILC site
Director’s Corner 10 July 2008 Barry Barish The proposed Russian ILC site One of the most difficult and tricky issues for the Global Design Effort in carrying out our design work is how to approach the siting issue for the ILC before proposals are actually solicited for hosting the machine. Conventional facilities are a major […]
Passing the torch
The ILC Reference Design Report companion document, Gateway to the Quantum Universe played a symbolic role for CERN’s Jean-Luc Baldy as he passed the torch to John Osborne, also from CERN, during the ALCPG07 workshop at Fermilab this week. For the past two years, Baldy served as one of the Conventional Facilities & Siting group […]
Meet John Osborne
International Linear Collider workshops tend to be hectic. Meetings are scheduled back to back and often overlap. The days start early and end late. The coffee breaks are a brief, necessary respite. In a virtual collaboration, the three Conventional Facilities & Siting Group leaders understand that face to face time is precious, making it easy […]