Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
As a guest columnist for the Director’s Corner, it is my turn to supply this article approximately once every eleven months. Looking back I see that my last column was just before the LCWS 10 workshop held in Beijing. Interestingly enough, I now find myself on the tail end of another GDE workshop, the recent […]
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 […]
Director’s Corner 9 December 2010 Barry Barish Evolving the ILC baseline: main linac operating gradient Last week I described the motivation and the process for evolving the baseline for the technical design effort that we will be carrying out over the next two years, culminating in a Technical Design Report (TDR) at the end of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Director’s Corner 10 December 2009 Barry Barish The ILC Project Advisory Committee considers proposed ILC baseline revisions Much of our work this year has been focussed on assessing the ILC Reference Design Report (RDR) produced in 2007, in order to determine what changes to the RDR baseline to make for the technical design effort that […]
Director’s Corner 10 September 2009 Barry Barish A new ILC baseline and global consensus One of our proudest accomplishments in the Global Design Effort has been the global process by which we created the ILC reference design. This was a fundamental success resulting from how we organised ourselves and the process we used in making […]
Director’s Corner 23 July 2009 Barry Barish Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration The main thrust of our ILC accelerator design work during the Technical Design Phase (TDP-1 and TDP-2) is to refine the design presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) towards a more coherent […]
Director’s Corner 11 June 2009 Barry Barish An official change of name A strategy has been emerging over the past months to define a new baseline configuration for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR). Beginning with the well-established Reference Design Report (RDR) configuration, we are selectively proposing changes that can significantly improve the cost to […]
Director’s Corner 22 March 2007 Barry Barish ILC Baseline Alternative: The Re-entrant Cavity Hasan Padamsee, leader of the Cornell superconducting RF R&D group ILC R&D on superconducting RF technology is of special importance because it represents our central technology, and it is an area where we are forging the way for future accelerators that will […]