Director’s Corner 1 March 2007 Barry Barish Ray Larsen ILC Baseline Alternative: The Marx Modulator Today’s issue of ILC NewsLine features a special column written jointly by GDE Director Barry Barish and Ray Larsen of SLAC. The release of the ILC Reference Design was a very important milestone. Yet, we have emphasised that it is […]
Baseline Damping Rings
Director’s Corner 11 May 2006 Barry Barish Baseline Damping Rings One of the more difficult decisions we made last fall was which damping ring option to choose for our baseline. No recommendation came out of the Snowmass Workshop and our damping ring working group continued to study the question through much of the fall. […]
Fermilab’s Garbincius Chairs GDE Design Cost Board
Last month in Frascati, GDE Director Barry Barish announced the establishment of the Design Cost Board with Fermilab’s Peter Garbincius as chairperson. The primary role of this board is to oversee the preparation of the Reference Design Report, a document to be developed by the end of 2006, which will include a detailed design and […]
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 […]