ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider

ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider

Topic of the Study Goals Working Groups Upcoming Events LC Notes Technology Choice Topics of Interest
ECFA Organizing committee Worldwide Linear Collider Studies Official and Press Statements on Linear Collider Policy Extended ECFA/DESY Study (2001-2003) 2nd ECFA/DESY Study (1998-2000) DESY

+++ Third ECFA Workshop, November 14-17, 2005, Vienna +++

 Upcoming events: Third ECFA Workshop, November 14-17, 2005, Vienna

Physics and Detector Meetings
Workshops
  First ECFA Workshop, Montpellier, France, 13-16 November 2003  (Speakers slides)
  International Conference on Linear Colliders - LCWS 2004, Paris, 19-23 April 2004
  Second ECFA Workshop, Durham, UK, Sep 1-4, 2004  (Speakers slides)
  International Conference on Linear Colliders - LCWS 2005, SLAC, Mar 18-22, 2005.
  8th ACFA Workshop on Physics and Detector at the Linear Collider, Daegu, Korea, July 11-14, 2005.
  2005 ILC Physics and Detector Workshop and 2nd ILC Accelerator Workshop, ALCPG workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, August 14-27, 2005.
 Third ECFA Workshop, November 14-17, 2005, Vienna
Meetings of working groups between main ECFA Workshops
Conferences, Workshops, and Schools related to this study
Proceedings of the ECFA/DESY Extended Study (pdf, 8.5 MBytes)
International Linear Collider Meetings and Links
  First ILC Workshop "Towards an International Design of a Linear Collider", KEK, Japan, Nov 13-15, 2004. Speakers slides: Plenary, working groups.
 LCWS 2005, International Conference on Linear Colliders, SLAC, Mar 18-22, 2005.
 International Workshop on ILC beam delivery, together with the ILC-Europe meeting (EUROTeV and ELAN), RHUL, June 20-23, 2005.
  2005 ILC Physics and Detector Workshop and 2nd ILC Accelerator Workshop, ALCPG workshop, Snowmass, Colorado, August 14-27, 2005.
  The Photon and PLC2005, Warsaw and Kazimierz, Poland, 30-Aug to 08-Sep-2005 The Photon: Its First Hundred Years and the Future, contains a PLC2005 - the Photon Collider Workshop and Lectures on Future Colliders and Astrophysics
International Linear Collider Communication
ICFA International Committee for Future Accelerators
GDE Global Design effort
Topics of Interest to the Study
Topics of interest to this study
Working Groups
Working groups and their convenors
Detector R&D topics of interest
The INTAS-TESLA project
Reference lists
Parameters of the high luminosity TESLA e+e- linear collider
List of reference reactions for detailed feasibility studies
ILCSC parameters document
Worldwide Study (WWS)
Linear Collider
Worldwide Study of the Physics and Detectors for Future Linear e+e- Colliders
  Detector Concepts Studies for the ILC
  Detector R&D for the ILC
  Report of the International Linear Collider Technical Review Committee - 2003 (Greg Loew Report)
  WWS committee on the organization of the global experimental program, summary presented by Hitoshi in the Victoria Plenary session (pdf)
Worldwide consensus statement in support of the linear collider
 "Understanding Matter, Energy, Space and Time: The Case for the e+e- Linear Collider" pdf file (70 kBytes)
  This document has been prepared by the World Wide Physics and Detectors Study Group.
It is intended to set out the scientific case for a 500 GeV e+e- linear collider, upgradable to higher energy in future and with options retained for special investigations with alternate beam particles and added polarization capability.

We are asking everyone who wants to be listed as a supporter to go to the sign-up web page.
The list, to be made available on the International LC web page, will serve as a demonstration of the widespread support in the community for the linear collider.
See also the updated letter distributed by Jim Brau, Sachio Komamiya and David Miller.

 
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Regional Linear Collider Studies
European Design Study Towards a Global TeV Linear Collider
ACFA Joint Linear Collider Physics and Detector Working Group
GLC Accelerator Research
American Linear Collider Physics Group
Linear Collider Physics Study at Fermilab
American Working Group on Linear Collider Accelerator Technology
Linear Collider website for Canada
TESLA Accelerator Physics & Design Group
Physics Study Group for the CLIC e+e- linear collider
Linear Collider UK webside
LC-ABD consortium of UK groups (Linear Collider: Accelerator and Beam Delivery)
UCLC (University Consortium for Linear Collider R&D)
 
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Proposal to ECFA for a new Linear Collider Study, September 2002
  As the organizing committee of the Extended ECFA/DESY Study, we propose that ECFA should support these activities for a further two years, from Spring 2003. The three ECFA supported studies so far have played an enormously important role in preparing the case for the linear collider. This case has been endorsed by representative bodies in Europe, America and Asia. An International Linear Collider Steering Group has been formed, under the chairmanship of Maury Tigner, to promote the programme. It is relying on the studies in the three regions to provide input on Physics and Detectors. Both the USA and Asia plan continued studies. The present ECFA/DESY Study involves a widely distributed group of experimenters and theorists doing feasibility studies, fundamental calculations and R&D. The momentum of this work in Europe needs to be kept up to maintain our contribution to the formation of an international user community.
ECFA accepted this proposal at their 29 November 2002 plenary meeting. The new 'ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider' will run to Spring 2005.
 
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Goals of the ECFA Study on Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider
 

International

  • to contribute to the development of a Global Linear Collider programme by encouraging international collaboration on the physics case, on detector R&D and on the machine-detector interface.
  • to participate in the international LCWS workshops (the Saariselka series).
  • to explore ways of co-ordinating and perhaps integrating the regional and worldwide workshop series.

Detector design, R&D, Simulation

  • to design, build and test detector prototypes (with inter-regional collaboration).
  • to maintain the detector design, and critically review its performance on all important physics channels.
  • to build up a modern simulation framework (both for detector and physics studies) sharing resources with the other regions whenever possible
  • to prepare all tools necessary for a "simulated data challenge"

Machine-Detector Interface

  • study the impact of realistic beams and the associated backgrounds on the detector.
  • when the linac technology and crossing angle choice has been made, update all designs to match.
  • interact with the designers of the beam delivery system to ensure that physics goals can be achieved.
  • participate in planning and R&D for polarimetry, beam energy measurement, beam monitoring, luminosity measurement.
  • study the special requirements of the gamma-gamma, e-gamma and GigaZ options.

Physics Case

  • co-operate with LHC colleagues to develop and present the arguments for concurrent running of LC and LHC.
  • explore the connections between the LC physics programme and cosmology.
  • continue to upgrade feasibility studies on important physics channels, with more realistic beam, background and detector simulation.
  • before the linac technology choice is made (end 2004), explore any differences between the physics capabilities of the candidate technologies.
  • study quantitatively the potential systematic limitations on measurements and look for ways around them.
  • quantify the physics benefits from options to upgrade or vary the LC programme: from the energy upgrade, from e- e-, e- gamma and gamma gamma, from the Giga Z, from e+ polarisation, from narrower beam energy spread, from better polarimetry and spectrometry.
  • in the Loopverein: continue to improve precision of Standard Model and Supersymmetric predictions to match the expected precision of experimental measurements with the LC.
  • to continue to investigate new theoretical ideas, both strategic and methodological.
  • to continue development of Monte Carlo generators suitable for LC physics.
 
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Organizing committee
 Organizing Committee of the ECFA Study of Physics and Detectors for a Linear Collider
 Chair: David Miller, UCL London
  Fernando Barreiro, Madrid
Mikhail Danilov, ITEP, Moscow
Albert de Roeck, CERN
Rolf Heuer, Hamburg
Wolfgang Hollik, MPI Munich
Leif Jönsson, Lund
Jan Kalinowski, Warsaw
Paolo Laurelli, Frascati
Marcello Piccolo, Frascati
François Richard, Orsay
Ron Settles, MPI Munich
Valery Telnov, Novosibirsk
Jan Timmermans, NIKHEF
Vaclav Vrba, Prague
Nicholas Walker, DESY
 
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