SiD Detector Concept Workshop at SLAC The SiD Detector Concept for the ILC will hold its next workshop at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 21-23 August 2012. The main purpose of the workshop will be to review the first draft of the SiD Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) due to be completed by December 2012. It will […]
If the particles won’t come to the detector…
Experts on detector, machine-detector interface and civil engineering agree on detector hall design
Sometimes big things have to move in the way of small things to find exciting things. The ILC detectors, for example. True to the scientific principle of reproducibility of results, two detectors, ILD and SiD, will one day record what happens when electrons and positrons collide so that one can verify (or not) what the […]
Design report in the making: drafting the DBD
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
Concrete plans for a platform
Pushing and pulling a detector on its platform brings technical challenges
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
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 […]
SiD moving forward
Research Director’s Report 16 December 2010 Jim Brau Andy White SiD moving forwardThis month’s Research Director’s Report was written by Jim Brau (University of Oregon) and Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington), who serve on the SiD Executive Committee and were co-organizers of the recent SiD workshop. The SiD (Silicon Detector) Collaboration met in […]
Detector groups work out their work plans
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 […]
Progress on ILC detectors
International Detector Advisory Group completed its report
Two ILC detector concepts, ILD and SiD, have been validated by the International Detector Advisory Group. (SiD CAD model rendering courtesy of Marco Oriunno) ILD and SiD, two of the three detector concepts that submitted Letters of Intent, have been recommended for validation to Research Director Sakue Yamada by the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG), […]
UC Davis spearheads interconnect technology development for SiD detector
Nearly every one of the myriad complex components of the International Linear Collider pushes the limits of today’s technology, and for the ILC to succeed, each one of them has to work as designed. Researchers at the University of California, Davis (US) are concentrating on the interconnects – the connections between arrays of electronic circuit […]
Progress on ILC machine-detector interfaces through the detector LOI process
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 […]