Transcript News from ILCSC & future goals Brian Foster Oxford University News from ILCSC Outreach matters from ELCSC and a few other European matters The next steps B.

News from ILCSC & future goals
Brian Foster
Oxford University
News from ILCSC
Outreach matters from ELCSC and a few other European
matters
The next steps
B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04
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News from ILCSC
I don’t know of any news from ILCSC, or indeed
any other LC-related body, that David didn’t tell you
on the opening day of the conference.
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ELCSG Outreach
Outreach Committee:
Executive is:
P. Burrows (UK)
G. Chiarelli (Italy)
M. Kobel (Germany)
F. LeDiberder has been replaced by P. Bambade (France).
Most activity involved in preparing for ESOF 2004 conference in
Stockholm on August 27th. Title of session was “From Quarks to Galaxies”:
speakers were: G. t’Hooft; L. Verde; U. Amaldi; U. Danielsson; A. Wagner.
The session was inside the thematic category “Humanity & Space”.
There was also be an exhibition “From Cloud Chambers to Linear
Accelerators: Tracking Down the Origin of Matter”, which was in the Pillared
hall in the first (ground) floor. There were16 poster panels surrounding the
exhibition, 7 exhibits, and a video screen.
60 politicans were invited – most replied, a few attended.
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ELCSG Outreach
The press conference in the morning was very successfull, was very
well attended and resulted in at least two major article in the German
press.
The talks were extremely good and there was a very lively discussion
session of around 40 mins afterwards. The audience size was around 75.
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ELCSG Outreach
Work continuing on a joint world-wide web site for LC information under
the umbrella of interactions.org. It was launched at Beijing in the wake of
the technology decision and has lots of interesting pages.
Three posters as a world collaboration are also being constructed.
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EU funding
CARE has now got well under way. We heard from Eckhard
about the success of EuroTev, which is now in the somewhat
painful phase of reducing its aspirations by ~20%. Progress is
being made.
One cannot over-emphasise the importance of EU funding
in our LC activities. It is not the money alone, welcome though that
is, but also the focus, the discipline and the guidance that it
is giving us in setting up management structures. Sometimes these
structures are cumbersome, but in general they are probably
helpful.
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Onwards and upwards
We are at a crucial time in our endeavour to realise a 1 TeV ILC
with significant overlap in running time with LHC.
The ITRP decision is a major milestone. Many of our colleagues
in Europe in eminent positions who are not keen on the ILC doubted
that this decision would ever be taken and even if it was, they doubted
that it would stick.
The press coverage of the decision was very extensive and almost
all positive. For example, in the UK, 3 out of 4 national “broadsheet”
newspapers carried extensive stories on the LC.
We now have a momentum that we must ensure isn’t dissipated
in the difficult discussions that are necessary as we move into the
GDI phase and a truly global organisation.
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Onwards and upwards
One of the reasons I emphasised the ELCSG outreach activity
is that it is vital for all regions to redouble efforts in this regard.
We are now launched on the path the governments required of
us. There are clear indications that, for example, in the US, the
ITRP decision has had a major effect and that DoE are starting to
run with it. To convince the governments to commit money, we
need to convince the pubic and our fellow scientists that this money
will be well spent and is well motivated.
In Europe we have a particularly difficult problem with outreach –
it has to be done in many languages and inside a financial framework
for research in the various countries that differs hugely. We, the
people who want this machine to happen, had better get out into
the schools, the universities and the town halls and explain to the
people why they should support it. The EU is a tool that, carefully
and properly used, can also help us to convince national governments
that the LC is the right strategic investment; but note that this can be
a dangerous weapon and a two-edged sword.
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Onwards and upwards
In particular, I want to emphasise strongly the opportunity that
2005 as World Year of Physics/Einstein Year offers to us all.
Clearly WYP is much broader than particle physics. Equally clearly,
particle physics is archetypically “Einstein Physics” and this is a
marvellous opportunity to convey the excitement of our subject in
general and the LC in particular to a broad audience. Please do your
best to seize this opportunity.
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Onwards and upwards
The November meeting in KEK will be the first in a series of
crucial meetings which must be organised carefully and
sensitively. Many people are bound to have been disappointed
by the outcome of the ITRP and we in Europe particularly will
need to open up our structures and our expertise in the cold
technology so that we can integrate the large amount of new effort
from the US and Japan that becomes available post-ITRP.
We had some discussion in the parallel sessions about the
organisation of the KEK meeting. The clear feeling from the ILCSC
was that this meeting should be relatively small (~80), concentrating
of accelerator issues and consist of accelerator experts plus a few
“dignitaries”, not a major jamboree covering all aspects of the LC
and the detectors. Nonetheless, it is clear that there are some
time-critical issues that need to be discussed urgently and studies
such as this ECFA one must insert these ideas into the ILCSC through
its “user” reps. – in our case currently D. Miller.
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Onwards and upwards
I have been in contact with M. Tigner, who has been extended
(for a final time, in his words) as ILCSC chair until summer 2005.
He is currently out of the office but we will talk urgently when he
returns next week. It is planned to hold an ILCSC meeting directly
after the KEK meeting; this will be very important in reviewing the
next steps and getting the GDI selection committees that David
mentioned operating so that the GDI can be got under way early
in 2005.
I was impressed by the detector ideas and organisation that have
been discussed at this meeting. Equally however we are only at the
beginning of a long process.
With this in mind, I expect to receive a request for an extension of
the ECFA LC study beyond the current spring 2005, in time to be
discussed at the next RECFA meeting in Bratislava at the end of the
month. I would expect this to be the last extension, so that this
study will run until the ILC laboratory is ready to take responsibility
for the physics programme.
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Summary
There is no doubt in my mind that both the decision of the ITRP
and the way it was expressed and accepted by all has been a major
success, and has given the ILC the best possible launch-pad.
Now the job of our colleagues on the ITRP is (almost) over.
The ball is back in our court, and we had better run with it! (?)
Seize the opportunity of WYP/Einstein year to bring LC to the fore!
This is a good time to be alive and a proponent of the ILC!
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Summary
To steal from my
Durham compatriot DJM:
It turns out that today is
the 900th anniversary of the
translation of the relics of
St Cuthbert to Durham.
St Cuthbert is clearly
saying: “Go in peace.
Lunch is ready”.
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