Dear Colleagues,
Please take note of the following initiative. Details of the proposal
can be found at http://www-flc.desy.de/eurotev/esgard_review.pdf .
Norman Graf
More than 20 European institutes are joining forces on a Design Study for
a Linear Collider in the TeV energy range.
While waiting for the deliberations of the ITRP for the choice of
acceleration technology a consortium of European research labs is
trying to address some of the remaing high ranking issues identified by
the TRC. The consortium is preparing a bid to be submitted to the EU
framework program (FP6) and has chosen to tackle the following tasks:
* Beam Delivery Systems (BDS)
* Damping Rings (DR)
* Polarised Positron Source (PPS)
* Diagnostics (DIAG)
* Luminosity Performance Studies (BDYN)
* Metrology & Stabilisation (METSTB)
* Global Accelerator Network (GANMVL)
These activities are expected to be complemented by studies in the
Americas and in Asia to enable the complete design of a linear collider
in the TeV-energy range.
There will be an open meeting on
February 20th, 2004 at Daresbury Laboratory
to introduce the scope of the project.
Details can be found on the (evolving Web page)
http://www-flc.desy.de/eurotev/
