GDE Executive Committee: Public Meeting Minutes 18 May 2006

Guest:
Bill Willis SRF update

Bill Summarized the Ideal R&D Program developed by the RDB

  • 450 R&D topics prioritized from 1-4, very high or very low priority
  • Published to the wiki
  • Collecting revisions to be dealt with later
  • Working with Gerry Dugan – Americas region-on to map priorities onto the R&D part of FY07 ILC-Americas program
  • RDB members attended Gerry’s meeting at SLAC and had a second meeting at DESY on May 13
  • Another meeting will take place in the US at Fermilab on June 1, and a following meeting on June 28

Task Forces for Special Areas

  • The R&D list is global, but the needs of each region differ. We must take into consideration the needs of these regions, nations and funding agencies.
  • Work with Gerry/Americas will soon be finished and if there is a request for assistance with other regions we will respond as they are defined.
  • Special task forces will gather information, and then specifications will be proposed to the GDE beginning with urgency. Examples ---
  • Klystron - 3 concepts are under discussion, 10 MW Multibeam (baseline), SLAC initiative on sheet beams, 5 megawatt high efficiency development
  • Task Force KL – Klystron is headed by Terry Garvey. Terry has met with the experts at DESY. A clear consensus was reached and collaborations were discussed. 5 MW high efficiency eliminated
  • Report being written with exact language. Must be well written
  • Additional Task Forces are being organized.

Meetings:

May 30 – DESY-to discuss coordination of ILC and XFEL work at DESY

June 1 – FNAL-R&D Board and others-to review plans for s0/s1 and s2 task forces.

CLOSED SESSION:

-EC meeting 25-MAY-06: cancelled due to travel

-Public Minutes of 11-MAY-06: any corrections to Max within 24hrs, then posted

-Announcements – none

-Action Items:

  • Vancouver – Gerry
    • Room requests and availability sent to EC
    • Any requests or revisions need to be sent GD

- DESY meeting Summary

  • Chris Adolphsen gave a summary (15 pages)
  • XFEL cost estimate $1B, 18% higher than TESLA TDR
  • Vancouver Plan for Costing --
  • RF status – notes sent out by Peter, already being updated
    • 3 cost engineers will collect info early.
    • 3 cost engineers to meet during meeting behind closed doors with all systems
    • By Friday there will be meetings with the GDE EC and then a summary talk, including costs on Saturday
  • ILCSC
    • Need to be more aggressive with ILCSC in requesting help from the labs for R&D areas that need to be concentrated on.
    • We will need ILCSC and lab directors for support as we go forward
    • It was hard to pull together technical help for the RDR
    • We anticipate the problem multiplying with the TDR
    • How are we going to do it? We need to strengthen the RDR team for the TDR with resources, etc.
  • FALC
    • Push in the same area as with the ILCSC
    • We will need cooperation from the funding agencies
  • MAC (add to action list)
    • Small group to draw up point by point response to the report
    • This small group will consist of the Go3
    • This needs to be done by Moscow meeting – July
  • Next Years meetings?
    • Would we like a meeting in Beijing with ACFA in February?
    • Our Asian collaborators should tell us if this would be good.
    • LCWS 07 in June?

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