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Title: International Linear Collider-A Technical Progress Report

Abstract

The International Linear Collider: A Technical Progress Report marks the halfway point towards the Global Design Effort fulfilling its mandate to follow up the ILC Reference Design Report with a more optimised Technical Design Report (TDR) by the end of 2012. The TDR will be based on much of the work reported here and will contain all the elements needed to propose the ILC to collaborating governments, including a technical design and implementation plan that are realistic and have been better optimised for performance, cost and risk. We are on track to develop detailed plans for the ILC, such that once results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN establish the main science goals and parameters of the next machine, we will be in good position to make a strong proposal for this new major global project in particle physics. The two overriding issues for the ILC R&D programme are to demonstrate that the technical requirements for the accelerator are achievable with practical technologies, and that the ambitious physics goals can be addressed by realistic ILC detectors. This GDE interim report documents the impressive progress on the accelerator technologies that can make the ILC a reality. It highlights resultsmore » of the technological demonstrations that are giving the community increased confidence that we will be ready to proceed with an ILC project following the TDR. The companion detector and physics report document likewise demonstrates how detector designs can meet the ambitious and detailed physics goals set out by the ILC Steering Committee. LHC results will likely affect the requirements for the machine design and the detectors, and we are monitoring that very closely, intending to adapt our design as those results become available.« less

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1028679
Report Number(s):
SLAC-R-965
TRN: US1105616
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; ACCELERATORS; CERN; DESIGN; HADRONS; IMPLEMENTATION; LINEAR COLLIDERS; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICS; PROGRESS REPORT; SAFETY REPORTS; Accelerators,ACCPHY, ENG

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Elsen, Eckhard, /DESY, Harrison, Mike, /Brookhaven, Hesla, Leah, /Fermilab, Ross, Marc, /Fermilab, Royole-Degieux, Perrine, /Paris, IN2P3, Takahashi, Rika, /KEK, Tsukuba, Walker, Nicholas, /DESY, Warmbein, Barbara, /DESY, Yamamoto, Akira, /KEK, Tsukuba, Yokoya, Kaoru, /KEK, Tsukuba, Zhang, Min, and /Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys. International Linear Collider-A Technical Progress Report. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.2172/1028679.
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Elsen, Eckhard, /DESY, Harrison, Mike, /Brookhaven, Hesla, Leah, /Fermilab, Ross, Marc, /Fermilab, Royole-Degieux, Perrine, /Paris, IN2P3, Takahashi, Rika, /KEK, Tsukuba, Walker, Nicholas, /DESY, Warmbein, Barbara, /DESY, Yamamoto, Akira, /KEK, Tsukuba, Yokoya, Kaoru, /KEK, Tsukuba, Zhang, Min, & /Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys. International Linear Collider-A Technical Progress Report. United States. doi:10.2172/1028679.
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Elsen, Eckhard, /DESY, Harrison, Mike, /Brookhaven, Hesla, Leah, /Fermilab, Ross, Marc, /Fermilab, Royole-Degieux, Perrine, /Paris, IN2P3, Takahashi, Rika, /KEK, Tsukuba, Walker, Nicholas, /DESY, Warmbein, Barbara, /DESY, Yamamoto, Akira, /KEK, Tsukuba, Yokoya, Kaoru, /KEK, Tsukuba, Zhang, Min, and /Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys. Fri . "International Linear Collider-A Technical Progress Report". United States. doi:10.2172/1028679. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1028679.
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@article{osti_1028679,
title = {International Linear Collider-A Technical Progress Report},
author = {Elsen, Eckhard and /DESY and Harrison, Mike and /Brookhaven and Hesla, Leah and /Fermilab and Ross, Marc and /Fermilab and Royole-Degieux, Perrine and /Paris, IN2P3 and Takahashi, Rika and /KEK, Tsukuba and Walker, Nicholas and /DESY and Warmbein, Barbara and /DESY and Yamamoto, Akira and /KEK, Tsukuba and Yokoya, Kaoru and /KEK, Tsukuba and Zhang, Min and /Beijing, Inst. High Energy Phys.},
abstractNote = {The International Linear Collider: A Technical Progress Report marks the halfway point towards the Global Design Effort fulfilling its mandate to follow up the ILC Reference Design Report with a more optimised Technical Design Report (TDR) by the end of 2012. The TDR will be based on much of the work reported here and will contain all the elements needed to propose the ILC to collaborating governments, including a technical design and implementation plan that are realistic and have been better optimised for performance, cost and risk. We are on track to develop detailed plans for the ILC, such that once results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN establish the main science goals and parameters of the next machine, we will be in good position to make a strong proposal for this new major global project in particle physics. The two overriding issues for the ILC R&D programme are to demonstrate that the technical requirements for the accelerator are achievable with practical technologies, and that the ambitious physics goals can be addressed by realistic ILC detectors. This GDE interim report documents the impressive progress on the accelerator technologies that can make the ILC a reality. It highlights results of the technological demonstrations that are giving the community increased confidence that we will be ready to proceed with an ILC project following the TDR. The companion detector and physics report document likewise demonstrates how detector designs can meet the ambitious and detailed physics goals set out by the ILC Steering Committee. LHC results will likely affect the requirements for the machine design and the detectors, and we are monitoring that very closely, intending to adapt our design as those results become available.},
doi = {10.2172/1028679},
journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Fri Nov 04 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
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