Merging of Regional Proposals Into A Worldwide Project
In August 2004, the International Technology Recommendation Panel (ITRP) recommended a superconducting radio frequency technology for the accelerator. After this decision the three existing linear collider projects – the Next Linear Collider (NLC), the Global Linear Collider (GLC) and Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (TESLA) – joined their efforts into one single project (the ILC). Physicists are now working on the detailed design of the accelerator. Steps ahead include obtaining funding for the accelerator, and choosing a site. In August 2007, the Reference Design Report for the ILC was released.
In March 2005, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced the appointment of Dr. Barry Barish as the Director of the Global Design Effort. Barry Barish was director of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech from 1997 to 2005.
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