The Linear Collider Physics/Detector Group of ACFA (Asian Committee for Future Accelerators) and the Global Design Effort (GDE) of the ILC are sponsoring a joint ACFA physics and detector workshop and GDE meeting on the International Linear Collider. The meeting, called KILC12, will be held in Daegu, Korea from Monday April 23 through Thursday April […]
GDE Executive Committee meets face to face
The Global Design Effort (GDE) Executive Committee met face to face in Washington, DC, from 8-9 February at the offices of the American Physical Society. The GDE Executive Committee is the senior responsible body for the GDE and advises me on the broad range of science and policy issues involved in directing our efforts. Being […]
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee plans for the future
The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), provides oversight to the Global Design Effort. As we approach our final milestone, the publication of the ILC Technical Design Report, the ILCSC is in the process of creating a new organisational structure and mandate for future work […]
GDE Executive Committee visits Washington DC
The Global Design Effort (GDE) Executive Committee met for a face-to-face meeting in the Washington DC offices of the American Physical Society from 8-9 February. At that meeting, we invited some guests to inform us about how science policy and funding work in the US government. Our mandate for the GDE is soon approaching its […]
Baseline Technical Review for ILC superconducting RF systems
The final preparatory step in our process of defining the baseline for the Technical Design Report (TDR) is to carry out a set of four Baseline Technical Reviews (BTR) that concentrate on the large number of small technical decisions that remain to be defined for the TDR baseline. We previously made a set of top-level […]
Timely Technical Review
The culmination of the work of the ILC Global Design Effort is to produce a Technical Design Report (TDR), which will be comprehensive and can be used as the basis of project proposals to collaborating governments. We are finalising the design that will be documented in the TDR as well as planning the pre-TDR R&D […]
Our goals for 2012
Happy New Year! Today is a good time to take stock of what we achieved last year and reflect on our goals for the coming year. The primary goal for 2011 was to establish a new ILC baseline that would be better optimised for cost, performance and risk, as well as to carry out the […]
Decisions, decisions, decisions
In ILC NewsLine last week, Nick Walker wrote a guest Director’s Corner where he outlined the steps to the Technical Design Report (TDR) and Barbara Warmbein wrote a feature article summarising some highlights of the Baseline Technical Review (BTR) meeting at DESY. Today, I write a third article on the same basic subject of how […]
Setting the stages for shorter bunches
ILC’s central region gets reviewed
Beam lines, extraction lines, supply lines, final focus, sources, dumps, tunnels, shafts and not to forget the detector hall – the ILC’s central region is a busy place. In a recent technical review held at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, systems like the electron source, the positron source, the connection from damping ring to main linac, […]
“The GDE must write” – The first steps to the ILC Technical Design Report
This week's issue features a Director's Corner from Nick Walker, Project Manager for the Global Design Effort.
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.” Mark Twain “Scientists must write” was a particular mantra of one of my professors in my freshman year at university. He […]