Minutes of the CLIC Meeting - 26 March 2004
Agenda: |
Overview and Status of the Proposal to the CERN
council of an
Accelerated programme to
demonstrate the key CLIC feasibility issues before 2010 |
Speakers: |
Ian Wilson, Jean-Pierre Delahaye |
Ian presented the contents of the
paper for an Accelerated programme
to demonstrate the
key CLIC feasibility issues before 2010, concentrating on the
demonstration of the CLIC related feasibility issues. He gave a summary
of the presently needed extra resources, the planning, and a list of
the different work packages.
copy of Ian's transparencies (
pdf
format)
Jean-Pierre described the present
outcome of his presentations of this
programme to the SPC and Council. Both SPC and Council strongly support
the programme with the proposed
schedule.
In the SPC, there was a
technical
discussion with questions concerning the schedule, the accelerator
structures, the use of a different frequency, the achievement of the
small emittances and the cost of CLIC, etc. The SPC supported the many
good
arguments on the rich physics potential and re-expressed support for
the acceleration of the feasibility demonstration.
In Council, the presentation was followed by a discussion concerning
the position of CERN towards a future world-wide linear collider
project. The International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILC SC)
has set up a task force to recommend a technology for a sub-TeV linear
collider by the end of 2004. This choice being made, it is planned to
set up a Global Design Organization (GDO) to complete the conceptual
design report by 2005, the technical design report by 2007, leading to
a site selection in 2008. Due to CERN's limited resources and priority
of the LHC, CERN's present position is to leave the leading role to the
US or Japan and not bid for hosting the Central Design Team of the GDO.
A stronger future involvement could be possible once new resources will
become
available. In case no decision for a sub-TeV collider would be taken,
the results of the Accelerated R&D for CLIC can be offered for
world collaboration.
copy of Jean-Pierre's transparencies:
SPC chairman's summary of the related item (
pdf format)
Report of the ILCSC Task Force (
pdf format)
GDO structure (
pdf
format)
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