Happy New Year! Reflections on 2012
The original mandate for the GDE Last year was an especially exciting year for particle physics with the discovery of a 126-GeV particle that appears to be the long-sought Higgs boson. This event is...
View ArticleBecome a signatory of the Detailed Baseline Design report
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to sign the Detailed Baseline Design (DBD) report of the ILC detectors, which now exists as a nearly final draft. It summarises the R&D achievements of the ILC...
View Article2013: The year of the snake or the “What if?”
EC member Ewan Paterson looks at the cost-related “What ifs” for the ILC. Image: DESY, Evelyn Steinbrück We are beginning the new year of 2013 with the draft of the Technical Design Report (TDR) almost...
View ArticleTDR review season is underway
Committee members Hans Weise, DESY, and John Seeman, SLAC, watching the presentations The final deliverable for the Global Design Effort (GDE) is the Technical Design Report (TDR) for the ILC. We...
View ArticleA time of transition, or When men and mountains meet
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN – built and delivering exciting scientific results. image: CERN The International Linear Collider – about to publish its Technical Design Report. Image: ILC, Rey.Hori...
View ArticleILC TDR cost under review
The ILC international cost review was carried out at Oakley Court in Windsor, UK, where the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” was filmed in 1975. The final deliverable of the Global Design Effort, the ILC...
View ArticleFrom technology to diplomacy
The new LCC directorate: Mike Harrison, ILC Director; Hitoshi Yamamoto, Detector Director, Steinar Stapnes, CLIC Director, and Lyn Evans. Hitoshi Murayama (not pictured) is Deputy Director. Image: LCC...
View ArticleLe roi est mort, vive le roi ! (*)
The European Approach to succession planning (the battle of Trafalgar). The Global Design Effort (GDE) has successfully completed the R&D programme outlined back in 2006, and with the Technical...
View ArticlePress release: Next-generation particle accelerator is ready for construction
Rolf Heuer, member of ICFA, receiving the Technical Design Report from Europan Regional Director Brian Foster. Image: CERN Tokyo, Geneva, Chicago – 12 June 2013. A five-volume report containing the...
View ArticleThe Global Design Effort completes its mandate in style and substance
Global Design Effort director Barry Barish handing over the ILC Technical Design Report to Pier Oddone, chair of the International Committee for Future Accelerators on 12 June 2013. Image: Cindy...
View ArticleMoving from emotions to negotiations
An emotional moment: Pier Oddone, who will retire from his posts as Fermilab Director and ICFA chair on 1 July, congratulates Barry Barish, who is also retiring from his role as GDE Director, on...
View ArticleSLAC inaugurates a new era for the future ILC (twice)
TDR handover party cake, complete with silly straw model of the ILC. Image: Cherrill Spencer. The University of Tokyo, CERN and Fermilab weren’t the only locations celebrating the handover of the...
View ArticleNew working group toward ILC in Japan meets for the first time
Getting the best people from all over the world is one of the biggest challenges to realise the International Linear Collider, the next-generation electron-positron collider. That’s why there’s a new...
View ArticleHow great does the ‘Great Wall’ have to be?
New tunnel cross-section layout approved at ECFA meeting The question how great the (ILC tunnel’s) Great Wall needs to be was answered for the Kamaboko tunnel design at the Kitakami site by the final...
View ArticleCongratulations, Barry!
At the Nobel Awards earlier this week. © Nobel Media AB 2017. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud. Our colleague, Barry Barish, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for his leadership role...
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