Goals of the Study
The goals of the extended Study are:
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to continue to build up the active community of experimenters,
theorists and machine physicists who prepared the TDR, to be ready by 2003
to make firm proposals for a funded programme of linear e+e- physics up to
about 1 TeV, if it is decided to go ahead.
- to complete and extend feasibility studies on important physics
channels.
- to review the detector design in the light of results of the R&D
programmes which are now getting under way.
- to interact with the accelerator designers on questions relating to
the machine/detector interface, including backgrounds, shielding,
radiation levels, beam position monitoring, luminosity measurement and
energy measurement.
- to look at the physics potential and the technical possibilities for
extensions of the programme to produce real photon-photon, electron-photon
and e-e- collisions.
- to extend the work of the "LoopVerein", developing new tools and
techniques for calculating precise rates for Standard Model and
supersymmetric processes that match the expected experimental precision.
- to continue and extend contacts with physicists in North America, Asia
and throughout the world. Wherever the collider is built the
collaborations doing the experiments are likely to be composed of groups
from all over the world - as they were at LEP and are at HERA, the
Tevatron and the LHC.
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Organizing committee:
Organising Committee
of the Extended ECFA/DESY Study
on Physics and Detectors for a Future Linear Collider
Chair: David Miller, UCL London.
Mikhail Danilov, ITEP, Moscow.
Enrique Fernandez, Barcelona.
Rolf Heuer, Hamburg.
Leif Jönsson, Lund.
Paolo Laurelli, Frascati.
Martin Leenen, DESY.
Walter Majerotto, Vienna.
François Richard, Orsay.
Albert de Roeck, CERN.
Ron Settles, MPI Munich.
Valery Telnov, Novosibirsk.
Janusz Zakrzewski, Warsaw.
Peter Zerwas, DESY.
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Announcement of the study in the CERN Courier
Linear Collider Study Extended by ECFA
A strong physics case has been made for building an e+e- linear collider
with an energy range from 90 GeV up to about 1 TeV. It was presented on
March 23/24 at the TESLA Colloquium at DESY
TESLA Colloquium
at DESY
and is documented -- along with a detector design - in the third
volume of the
TESLA Technical Design Report
(the "TDR", report DESY 2001-011, ECFA 2001-209).
That volume, and
the detailed supporting notes that go with it, were produced by members of
the
Second ECFA/DESY Study of Physics and Detectors for a Future e+e-
Collider
, drawing on contributions from physicists throughout Europe and
around the World. Now the mandate to the Study from ECFA (the European
Committee for Future Accelerators) has been extended for another two years
to Spring 2003.
The goals of the extended Study are:
-
to continue to build up the active community of experimenters,
theorists and machine physicists who prepared the TDR, to be ready by 2003
to make firm proposals for a funded programme of linear e+e- physics up to
about 1 TeV, if it is decided to go ahead.
- to complete and extend feasibility studies on important physics
channels.
- to review the detector design in the light of results of the R&D
programmes which are now getting under way.
- to interact with the accelerator designers on questions relating to
the machine/detector interface, including backgrounds, shielding,
radiation levels, beam position monitoring, luminosity measurement and
energy measurement.
- to look at the physics potential and the technical possibilities for
extensions of the programme to produce real photon-photon, electron-photon
and e-e- collisions.
- to extend the work of the "LoopVerein", developing new tools and
techniques for calculating precise rates for Standard Model and
supersymmetric processes that match the expected experimental precision.
- to continue and extend contacts with physicists in North America, Asia
and throughout the world. Wherever the collider is built the
collaborations doing the experiments are likely to be composed of groups
from all over the world - as they were at LEP and are at HERA, the
Tevatron and the LHC.
The first workshop of the extended Study will be in Cracow, Poland, 15-18
September 2001. Details of registration, the programme and the working
groups will be linked to this webpage.
Some of the working groups on physics and detector topics are already
holding their own specialised meetings. There will be a Worldwide
workshop in Korea in Summer 2002, the 5th of the LCWS series (following
Saariselkä, Finland 1991; Waikoloa, Hawaii 1993; Morioka, Japan 1995;
Sitges, Spain 1999; Fermilab, USA 2000). There is an open invitation for
interested physicists from anywhere in the world to participate in all of
these activities. The ECFA/DESY Study is likely to have a strong overlap
of membership with the studies at CERN for the higher energy
CLIC collider
. The two studies will also
share tools and ideas.
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The organising committee for the extended ECFA/DESY Study is
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Mikhail Danilov (ITEP, Moscow), Enrique Fernandez (Barcelona), Rolf Heuer
(Hamburg), Leif Jönsson (Lund), Paolo Laurelli (Frascati), Martin Leenen
(DESY), David Miller (UCL, London, chair of the Study), Walter
Majerotto (Vienna), François Richard (Orsay),
Albert de Roeck (CERN),
Ron Settles (MPI, Munich), Janusz Zakrzewski (Warsaw), Peter Zerwas (DESY).