In November 2017, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) issued a statement supporting the construction of the International Linear Collider (ILC) operating at 250 GeV. It is based on machine and physics reports from the linear collider community. Following Jim Brau’s view on the physics case in the last issue, here is my personal […]
Costing the ILC Technical Design Report
For a very large potential project like the ILC, costs are obviously a very big issue. Reliably costing such large projects with ambitious new technologies, in advance of having a detailed technical design and implementation plan, is a real challenge. In addition, costing is done differently in different countries, making it particularly difficult to provide […]
Cost Optimisation of Wigglers for the ILC Damping Rings
Director’s Corner 14 December 2006 Gerry Dugan Cost Optimisation of Wigglers for the ILC Damping Rings Today’s issue features a Director’s Corner from Gerry Dugan, GDE Americas Regional Director. One of the key technical components of the ILC damping rings is the wiggler magnet, a device consisting essentially of a series of dipole magnets of […]