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The ECFA LC2013 workshop

This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Juan Fuster (IFIC-Valencia), chair of the Programme Committee of the European Linear Collider Workshop ECFA LC2013

| 30 May 2013

This year, the regional Linear Collider workshop is taking place in Europe at DESY (Hamburg, Germany) from 27 to 31 May 2013. The participants have been welcomed by a spectacular wide chromatic range of greens in Hamburg, accompanied by the inevitable rain and sun that both make this wonderful manifestation of nature possible. The magic […]

Global Design Efficiency – the story of a group revolution

| 21 February 2013

Some T-shirts lose their lives in the wash, but their memories live on. At a meeting in Snowmass, US, in August 2005, Norman Graf was seen wearing a simple white t-shirt asking “got ilc?” (Not yet, Norm) And Nick Walker sported a yellow shirt that said “Summer In Snowmass – Some Are Not.”). Those who […]

Press Release: International Linear Collider completes draft of its design report

Handover ceremony on 15 December in Tokyo, Japan

| 20 December 2012

Tokyo, 15 December. The draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the planned International Linear Collider ILC was handed over to Jonathan Bagger, the chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), at an official ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, on 15 December. This draft is the product of many years of research and […]

Exciting time for the ILC technical design

| 20 December 2012

Worldwide efforts toward the realisation of the International Linear collider advanced one step further last weekend. On 15 December, the draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) for ILC was handed over to Jonathan Bagger, the chair of the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), at an official ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan. This event […]

Major goal achieved for high-gradient ILC SCRF cavities

| 21 November 2012

One of the most important goals of the Global Design Effort has been to demonstrate that high-gradient cavities can be reliably produced in industry. We established two gradient goals: to produce cavities qualified at 35 Megavolts per metre (MV/m) in vertical tests and to demonstrate that an average gradient of 31.5 MV/m is achievable for […]

After the TDR: what’s next for ILC?

Today's issue features a Director's Corner from Marc Ross, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.

| 28 June 2012

“We are just standing at the entrance, and our world efforts need to continue or become even stronger.” These are the words Kaoru Yokoya used to close his ILC NewsLine Director’s Corner at the end of last year. (The italics are mine.) Six months later his words continue to ring true and are perhaps a […]

Organising the post-2012 era

| 28 June 2012

Last week the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced that Lyn Evans has been selected as the next Linear Collider Director to lead the new Linear Collider Organisation being created to bring the two linear collider programmes under one governance. The end of the GDE and Research Director era, with the completion of the […]

Some highlights from the KILC12 workshop

| 7 June 2012

A workshop organised by the Asian Committee on Future Accelerators (ACFA) and the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) was held in Daegu, Korea from 23 to 27 April 2012. The central emphasis of this workshop was the final discussions of the technical systems for the ILC, before we launch full-fledged into producing the Technical Design […]

The cost estimate for the ILC’s Technical Design Report

This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Gerry Dugan, Americas Region Cost Manager

| 31 May 2012

The cost estimate for the ILC that will accompany the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) is intended to be a credible, comprehensive, and well-documented presentation of the costs associated with the ILC design as described in the TDR. To provide the cost information in a format which is useful for all regional partners, the estimate […]

FALC meets in Japan

| 24 May 2012

The ILC initiative is unique in many ways, but perhaps the most striking characteristic is that it is truly a global effort having no home laboratory to support or guide its efforts. Instead, scientific guidance comes from the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), currently chaired by Pier Oddone, through its subcommittee, the International Linear […]