The schedule of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for the future International Linear Collider (ILC) was an important topic at the meeting in September of CERN’s Scientific Policy Committee. Barry Barish, head of the GDE, presented a report on the progress made since the International Technology Review Panel announced the technology choice for the ILC in August 2004.
Since the first ILC workshop, which was held at KEK in November 2004, work has been progressing towards a reference design. This year a second workshop was held in August at Snowmass in the US to refine the ideas. The reference design should be completed by the end of 2006, to be followed by a technical design report two years later. By 2010 the technical design report, together with the scientific results from the Large Hadron Collider and input from the CLIC Test Facility (CTF3) at CERN, will allow a decision on the future of the ILC.
