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. In addition to their specific recommendations on the detector and accelerator programmes, they repeated their general recommendation: “As at the previous PAC meeting, the PAC again recommends the need […]
Interim report on the ILC R&D programme
Today I announce the release of a comprehensive report on the ILC R&D programme and progress. The ILC R&D programme is oriented at establishing the technical viability of the design that will be presented in our Technical Design Report (TDR). This report describes our considerable progress to date on R&D and demonstration experiments that will […]
“Crazy” years await us – or maybe not
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Juan Fuster, co-chair of the Worldwide Study and regional detector contact for Europe.
“…acreditó su ventura, morir cuerdo y vivir loco” (… a crazy man his life he passed, but in his senses died at last) Epitaph of Samson Carrasco upon the tomb of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part two 1615) The book written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605 (part I) and […]
A conversation about our future
The major activity for the Global Design Effort in January was centred on the second Baseline Assessment Workshop held at SLAC from 18 to 21 January. Nick Walker reported on the meeting in this column last week, and I will report on the proposed change actions as soon as they occur. But in addition, by […]
Beyond the Technical Design Report
Director’s Corner 23 September 2010 Barry Barish Beyond the Technical Design ReportThe main focus of the efforts of the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) are to carry out the critical R&D programme needed for a successful ILC and to build on the ILC Reference Design by creating a Technical Design Report (TDR) that can be […]
ILC Detectors: more news since last IDAG meeting
Research Director’s Report17 June 2010 Sakue Yamada ILC Detectors: more news since last IDAG meetingWe have gained several helpful inputs from the new system of the International Detector Advisory Group (IDAG) monitoring global detectors after the validation. The IDAG report after the Beijing meeting suggests several new measures. Even during the discussion, we already received […]
Baseline Assessment Workshops
Director’s Corner 27 May 2010 Barry Barish Baseline Assessment Workshops Over the past months we have developed a process for assessing the major changes to the ILC baseline that were proposed last year. The motivation for the proposed changes is to evolve the ILC design to better optimise cost to performance to risk, with special […]