Technical Review Committee
Original Charge
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| The report of the International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee was the first attempt to gather in one document the current status of all major positron-electron linear collider projects in the world. The report was the result of a collaborative effort of scientists from many laboratories working together during that year. |
A first and preliminary organizational meeting of the Interlaboratory Collaboration was held on October 18, 1993, during LC93 at SLAC. At that time, DESY, KEK and SLAC presented drafts of proposals for Memoranda of Understanding, and various discussions took place on how this international collaboration might be orchestrated. The first official meeting of the Collaboration Council was held in June 1994 at EPAC 94 in London. The Council, as one of its first missions, decided to create a Technical Review Committee and asked its members to prepare a report, in accordance with the following charge:
"The Technical Review Committee is to consider the goal to
design, build, and operate a TeV-scale linear electron-positron
collider capable of satisfying the need to explore the particle
physics of this energy range. Specifically, the Committee is to
examine accelerator designs and technologies suitable for a
collider that will initially have center-of-mass energy of 500
GeV and luminosity in excess of
, and be built so
that it can be expanded in energy and luminosity to reach 1 TeV
center-of-mass energy with luminosity of
. The
Committee should consider construction and operation of both
the initial facility and the upgrade path to 1 TeV. The Committee
is also asked to comment on the potential of technologies to
reach higher energies and luminosities, and to provide
alternative physics capabilities, for example gamma-gamma
collisions.
The Technical Review Committee is to identify the accelerator
physics and technological requirements for each approach to
provide particle physics opportunities at the energy and
luminosity goals stated above. The report of the Committee
should contain a brief commentary of the status of and expected
progress toward understanding and achieving the most
important of these requirements. The Committee should
attempt to identify areas of possible further collaboration in the
world-wide linear collider R&D program.
A draft of the Committee report should be submitted to the
Collaboration Council shortly after the LC95 meeting
scheduled for March 1995 in Japan."
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