The 1-TeV upgrade challenges scientists develop better beams at lower rates of power
The technical design of the International Linear Collider is nearing completion, and it comes with a stipulation: If the Large Hadron Collider should direct scientists to an energy range beyond what the ILC accommodates, they should refer to its 1-teraelectronvolt contingency plan. Over the next several months, researchers will complete a preliminary study of the […]
The Global Design Effort (GDE) will complete the final deliverable in our mandate with the completion of the Technical Design Report (TDR). We intend to submit the TDR at the end of 2012, and with reviews and approval of the report, including required revisions, we expect our present task to be completed by about mid-2013. […]
This week, linear collider scientists converge on Granada, Spain for the second International Workshop on Future Linear Colliders. The conference is going well, with over 350 attendees discussing the future of particle physics, particularly with relation to how LHC results will guide the design of a next-generation collider. It is with this in the back […]
For a very large potential project like the ILC, costs are obviously a very big issue. Reliably costing such large projects with ambitious new technologies, in advance of having a detailed technical design and implementation plan, is a real challenge. In addition, costing is done differently in different countries, making it particularly difficult to provide […]
Over the past two years, the GDE has concentrated its efforts on advancing critical ILC R&D in order to reduce risks and to demonstrate performance. In parallel, we have established a new, more coherent and more cost-effective baseline to be used for the next phase of developing the technical design that will be incorporated in […]
The GDE Executive Committee held an important face-to-face meeting at Caltech in the US from 19 – 20 July 2011. Having established the new baseline for the ILC Technical Design Report (TDR) this past spring, the meeting concentrated on detailed planning for R&D, design and the actual scope and content of the report, which is […]
The GDE design for the ILC as presented in the Reference Design Report (RDR) is for an electron-positron colliding beam facility having a maximum centre-of-mass energy of 500 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). No design or upgrade path to 1 teraelectronvolt (TeV) was presented in the RDR. However, the option to upgrade to higher energies was explicitly maintained […]
In 2005, I appointed three cost engineers, Wilhelm Bialowons (DESY), Tetsuo Shidara (KEK) and Peter Garbincius (Fermilab) to work together to develop the methodology and to perform an international VALUE costing of the reference design for the ILC. Peter and his cost engineering colleagues did an outstanding job of costing the ILC as a global […]
Despite the various ups and downs in resources to support the ILC R&D and design programmes, the Global Design Effort has been able to continue to make impressive progress towards establishing ILC design parameters and technologies. In our new report, we present results that demonstrate superconducting radiofrequency high-gradient technology consistent with our goals, outline results […]
The ILC Program Advisory Committee (PAC) held their semi-annual review of the ILC detector and accelerator programmes at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan from 19-20 May and made a set of specific recommendations regarding the GDE accelerator R&D programme towards a Technical Design Report (TDR). Overall, the review was quite positive and supportive of our […]