When the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) group at KEK decided to upgrade their beam position monitor system in 2005, Marc Ross had a solution. Based at SLAC at the time, he was a longtime collaborator with KEK and familiar with the instrumentation systems used throughout Fermilab’s accelerator complex. In 2006, Ross became the head of […]
Interactions: It works!
Interactions members now officially classify as a tribe: flocking round the warming fire against the Californian chill they shared a goat during their meeting at SLAC last week. But though food may be memorable during the meetings of the InterAction collaboration, discussions and strategic plans are even more important for the communication representatives of particle […]
Salute to Jonathan
Director’s Corner 15 March 2007 Barry Barish Salute to Jonathan! Earlier this week, Jonathan Dorfan announced in SLAC Today that he is stepping down this fall as SLAC Director after eight very successful years. Jonathan has not only been serving as SLAC’s leader during this period, but he has also been a driving force in […]
ILC Baseline Alternative: The Marx Modulator
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 […]
From SLAC Today: ILC’s Marx Modulator
The current design for the International Linear Collider (ILC) requires 576, 10-megawatt klystron tubes to supply microwave power along its 40 km linear accelerator. Each ILC klystron tube needs 120,000 volt, 140-ampere pulses, fired at a rate of five pulses per second. Each pulse delivers a total energy of more than 23 kilojoules—the kinetic energy […]