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Concrete plans for a platform

Pushing and pulling a detector on its platform brings technical challenges

| 23 June 2011

Setting the stage for a particle collision event requires orchestration of Wagnerian proportions. Part of the production for the International Linear Collider involves perfectly positioning giant, unwieldy detectors in the particle beamline to capture data from electron-positron collisions. Recently ILC collaborators agreed that steel-reinforced concrete platforms would be used to steadily and nimbly move the […]

Determining the cost of the ILC detectors

| 19 May 2011

The two detector designs for the ILC are now elaborated by the ILD and SiD groups toward the Detailed Baseline Design Report (DBD). When the Letters of Intent (LOI) were called in 2007, the guideline said, “The LOI will not represent any formal commitment of the groups signing it to the project or to the […]

Detector groups work out their work plans

| 18 February 2010

Research Director’s Report 18 February 2010 Sakue Yamada Detector groups work out their work plans In my report of last December, I wrote about detector activities in the new phase after validation. One of them was the effort of the two detector groups, ILD and SiD, to make the work plans towards their detailed baseline […]

ILD concept detector group plan future work

| 11 February 2010

Some 100 members of the International Large Detector (ILD) group gathered from 27 to 30 January 2010 in Paris, France, deep in the academic Latin Quarter area. This fourth ILD workshop was the first dedicated ILD meeting after the concept was validated in 2009 by the research directorate. Coffee break during the ILD2010 workshop in […]

Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process

| 14 May 2009

Director’s Corner 14 May 2009 Barry Barish Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process The TILC09 workshop in Japan from17 to 21 April was particularly notable as it featured the first presentations of the ILC detector Letters of Intent (LOI). Although this process precedes the solicitation of ILC detector proposals or formation […]

Under pressure

Large time projection chamber prototype is about to start its first test

| 13 November 2008

TPC collaborators from across the globe fit the endcap onto the TPC field cage. Pressure gauge working? Check! The time projection chamber is part of the tracker system of a future ILD detector at the ILC and will one day reproduce highly precise tracks of the particles that passed through its gas. A plot of […]

ILD community determines parameters for reference detector

| 2 October 2008

Discussions during the ILD meeting in Cambridge, UK, about the detector concept parameters continued in the coffee breaks… …and after hours. (Photos: DESY) “I know it is painful — nobody expected it to be fun,” Ties Behnke, standing in front of a detector audience in a lecture hall at Cambridge University, summed up the at […]

Together as one: ILD community meets in Zeuthen

| 7 February 2008

A global project like the ILC depends on global cooperation. The contributors are scattered all over the world. Researchers cannot simply walk down the hall to get advice from a colleague because he is likely to sit somewhere half a world away. However, there is technology that helps scientists to cover these distances virtually: discussions […]

EuroTeV Looks Ahead to the ILC Engineering Design Phase

| 18 January 2007

Almost three years after EuroTeV (The European Design Study Towards a Global TeV Linear Collider) convened for the very first time at Daresbury Laboratory in February 2004, the collaboration met once again this past week amidst the rolling green hills and gusting gales to acknowledge programme accomplishments and discuss plans for the future. EuroTeV is […]