1 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 News from ILCSC & future goals News from ILCSC Outreach matters from ELCSC and a few other European matters The next steps Brian Foster Oxford University

2 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 I don’t know of any news from ILCSC, or indeed any other LC-related body, that David didn’t tell you on the opening day of the conference. News from ILCSC

3 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 ELCSG Outreach Outreach Committee: Executive is: P. Burrows (UK) G. Chiarelli (Italy) M. Kobel (Germany) F. LeDiberder has been replaced by P. Bambade (France). Most activity involved in preparing for ESOF 2004 conference in Stockholm on August 27th. Title of session was “From Quarks to Galaxies”: speakers were: G. t’Hooft; L. Verde; U. Amaldi; U. Danielsson; A. Wagner. The session was inside the thematic category “Humanity & Space”. There was also be an exhibition “From Cloud Chambers to Linear Accelerators: Tracking Down the Origin of Matter”, which was in the Pillared hall in the first (ground) floor. There were16 poster panels surrounding the exhibition, 7 exhibits, and a video screen. 60 politicans were invited – most replied, a few attended.

4 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 ELCSG Outreach The press conference in the morning was very successfull, was very well attended and resulted in at least two major article in the German press. The talks were extremely good and there was a very lively discussion session of around 40 mins afterwards. The audience size was around 75.

5 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 ELCSG Outreach Work continuing on a joint world-wide web site for LC information under the umbrella of interactions.org. It was launched at Beijing in the wake of the technology decision and has lots of interesting pages. Three posters as a world collaboration are also being constructed.

6 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 CARE has now got well under way. We heard from Eckhard about the success of EuroTev, which is now in the somewhat painful phase of reducing its aspirations by ~20%. Progress is being made. One cannot over-emphasise the importance of EU funding in our LC activities. It is not the money alone, welcome though that is, but also the focus, the discipline and the guidance that it is giving us in setting up management structures. Sometimes these structures are cumbersome, but in general they are probably helpful. EU funding

7 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 We are at a crucial time in our endeavour to realise a 1 TeV ILC with significant overlap in running time with LHC. The ITRP decision is a major milestone. Many of our colleagues in Europe in eminent positions who are not keen on the ILC doubted that this decision would ever be taken and even if it was, they doubted that it would stick. Onwards and upwards The press coverage of the decision was very extensive and almost all positive. For example, in the UK, 3 out of 4 national “broadsheet” newspapers carried extensive stories on the LC. We now have a momentum that we must ensure isn’t dissipated in the difficult discussions that are necessary as we move into the GDI phase and a truly global organisation.

8 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 One of the reasons I emphasised the ELCSG outreach activity is that it is vital for all regions to redouble efforts in this regard. We are now launched on the path the governments required of us. There are clear indications that, for example, in the US, the ITRP decision has had a major effect and that DoE are starting to run with it. To convince the governments to commit money, we need to convince the pubic and our fellow scientists that this money will be well spent and is well motivated. In Europe we have a particularly difficult problem with outreach – it has to be done in many languages and inside a financial framework for research in the various countries that differs hugely. We, the people who want this machine to happen, had better get out into the schools, the universities and the town halls and explain to the people why they should support it. The EU is a tool that, carefully and properly used, can also help us to convince national governments that the LC is the right strategic investment; but note that this can be a dangerous weapon and a two-edged sword. Onwards and upwards

9 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 In particular, I want to emphasise strongly the opportunity that 2005 as World Year of Physics/Einstein Year offers to us all. Onwards and upwards Clearly WYP is much broader than particle physics. Equally clearly, particle physics is archetypically “Einstein Physics” and this is a marvellous opportunity to convey the excitement of our subject in general and the LC in particular to a broad audience. Please do your best to seize this opportunity.

10 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 The November meeting in KEK will be the first in a series of crucial meetings which must be organised carefully and sensitively. Many people are bound to have been disappointed by the outcome of the ITRP and we in Europe particularly will need to open up our structures and our expertise in the cold technology so that we can integrate the large amount of new effort from the US and Japan that becomes available post-ITRP. We had some discussion in the parallel sessions about the organisation of the KEK meeting. The clear feeling from the ILCSC was that this meeting should be relatively small (~80), concentrating of accelerator issues and consist of accelerator experts plus a few “dignitaries”, not a major jamboree covering all aspects of the LC and the detectors. Nonetheless, it is clear that there are some time-critical issues that need to be discussed urgently and studies such as this ECFA one must insert these ideas into the ILCSC through its “user” reps. – in our case currently D. Miller. Onwards and upwards

11 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 I have been in contact with M. Tigner, who has been extended (for a final time, in his words) as ILCSC chair until summer He is currently out of the office but we will talk urgently when he returns next week. It is planned to hold an ILCSC meeting directly after the KEK meeting; this will be very important in reviewing the next steps and getting the GDI selection committees that David mentioned operating so that the GDI can be got under way early in I was impressed by the detector ideas and organisation that have been discussed at this meeting. Equally however we are only at the beginning of a long process. Onwards and upwards With this in mind, I expect to receive a request for an extension of the ECFA LC study beyond the current spring 2005, in time to be discussed at the next RECFA meeting in Bratislava at the end of the month. I would expect this to be the last extension, so that this study will run until the ILC laboratory is ready to take responsibility for the physics programme.

12 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 There is no doubt in my mind that both the decision of the ITRP and the way it was expressed and accepted by all has been a major success, and has given the ILC the best possible launch-pad. Summary Now the job of our colleagues on the ITRP is (almost) over. The ball is back in our court, and we had better run with it! (?) This is a good time to be alive and a proponent of the ILC! Seize the opportunity of WYP/Einstein year to bring LC to the fore!

13 B. Foster, Durham, 4/09/04 To steal from my Durham compatriot DJM: Summary It turns out that today is the 900 th anniversary of the translation of the relics of St Cuthbert to Durham. St Cuthbert is clearly saying: “Go in peace. Lunch is ready”.