The GDE Executive Committee met in a two-day face-to-face meeting in Melbourne just following ICHEP12. The main order of business was to develop a detailed “game plan” for producing the ILC Technical Design Report. The Global Design Effort (GDE) was created by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) and its subcommittee, the International Linear […]
Alea iacta est – the die has been cast
The update of the European strategy process for particle physics
This February, the CERN Council initiated the process to review the implementation of the 2006 European Strategy for particle physics. For that purpose a specific European Strategy Group was created with the aim of establishing a proposal for an update of the medium- and long-term European Strategy for Particle Physics. Tatsuya Nakada chaired this group. […]
A crucial technical review
Scientific oversight for the ILC Global Design Effort (GDE) is provided by the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC), a subcommittee of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA). The ILCSC has appointed a panel of accelerator experts to review and monitor the technical progress of the GDE, as well as that of the experimental […]
Building a home for the ILC detectors
This month's Research Director's Report was written by Karsten Büßer (DESY), Convener of the Machine-Detector Interface Common Task Group
If you are planning to build a home for your family, there is an important ingredient that you will need: translucent paper. Sooner or later in the planning stage, you will have the first blueprints from your architect, and if you are lucky, they already represent to a large fraction what you imagined your new […]
ILC Project Implementation Planning: the prequel / the draft
In order to make our ILC design as realistic as possible, we have considered many of the issues that will need good solutions when the ILC is built. As a result, we have developed and submitted a draft document to the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC) as a starting point towards an actual ILC […]
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 […]
Design report in the making: drafting the DBD
The year 2012 will be very busy and exciting. The main task for the ILC physics and detector community is to complete Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report summarising our effort since 2007. It will consist of two volumes: the physics volume and the detector and simulation volume. The recent news from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
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 […]
Costing the ILC Technical Design Report
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 […]