The design of the International Linear Collider has recently changed from featuring two tunnels to just one. This means many aspects of the tunnel design have to be re-thought – including the distribution of the radiofrequency power, the acceleration technology of choice for the ILC’s superconducting cavities. In addition to the klystron cluster scheme, the […]
Clustering klystrons to pool power
An elegant powering scheme accommodates the ILC’s new one-tunnel design.
Though it doesn’t sound like a way to tidy up, the alliteratively named klystron cluster could be the mechanism that helps streamline the large-scale design of the ILC. Scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US are currently developing the klystron cluster scheme, a new kind of power-delivery system for radiofrequency cavities that […]
Evolving the ILC baseline: single main linac tunnel
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 […]
One step forward to the ILC single tunnel design
On 1-2 June, the review on the design study of the ILC conventional facility in mountain regions was held at KEK, Japan, and the final review report was submitted last week by the review panel lead by Vic Kuchler of Fermilab to Seiya Yamaguchi, head of KEK's Linear Collider Office and to Marc Ross, project […]
Accelerator Design and Integration: Considerations for distributing high-level RF power for a single tunnel configuration
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 […]
One Tunnel or Two
Director’s Corner 1 December 2005 Barry Barish One Tunnel or Two? Should we build the ILC using one underground tunnel? Or should we build it using two adjacent tunnels, one containing the support instrumentation and the other containing the accelerator? These sound like innocuous questions, but they present one of the more complex and […]