Ten Years and Counting…

Former GDE Director Barry Barish revisits the project he led for eight years

Barry Barish | 20 August 2015

Many of the striking advances in particle physics during the particle collider era have resulted directly from the complementarity of hadron-hadron and electron-positron colliders. Unfortunately, it is not practical to build a complementary circular electron-positron collider for the LHC capable of reaching center-of-mass energies of about 1 TeV (tera electronvolt) because of the large amount of […]

ILC accelerator interim report elicits positive responses

Barry Barish | 21 July 2011

Despite the various ups and downs in resources to support the ILC R&D and design programmes, the Global Design Effort has been able to continue to make impressive progress towards establishing ILC design parameters and technologies. In our new report, we present results that demonstrate superconducting radiofrequency high-gradient technology consistent with our goals, outline results […]

Interim report on the ILC R&D programme

Barry Barish | 16 June 2011

Today I announce the release of a comprehensive report on the ILC R&D programme and progress. The ILC R&D programme is oriented at establishing the technical viability of the design that will be presented in our Technical Design Report (TDR). This report describes our considerable progress to date on R&D and demonstration experiments that will […]