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Opportunities in Linear Collider R&D Enabled by GAN. Don Hartill Cornell April 19, 2002. What is the “Global Accelerator Network” ?. There are a number of points of view Remote operation of accelerators
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Opportunities in Linear Collider R&DEnabled by GAN Don Hartill Cornell April 19, 2002
What is the “Global Accelerator Network” ? • There are a number of points of view • Remote operation of accelerators • Enables several laboratories to participate in the construction and operation of the next large accelerator project - e.g. Linear Collider • Leverages scarce accelerator physics and engineering talent • Most importantly, helps educate students so there is a next generation of accelerator builders
Some History • Concept proposed by A. Wagner, Director of DESY • Two ICFA Task Forces formed to assess the problem - one on policy issues and one on technical issues • Both reports available at www.fnal.gov/directorate/icfa/icfa_tforce_reports.html • First Workshop on Remote Operation of Accelerator Facilities held at Cornell March 21-23, 2002 - Summary report available around May 1, 2002 • Second Workshop with focus on possible experiments at Shelter Island September 17-20, 2002
Remote Operation • Already many examples from NASA, Ground based Astronomy • Systems have to be designed with enough hooks to enable remote diagnostics of problems (N. Toge - elected not to use remote operation of ATF facility at KEK because not included in design) • We already remotely operate accelerators - just a question of how far away you are • No technical show stoppers
Remote Operation Policy • This is the interesting question • Safety issues and government rules are key • Needs to be addressed very early in the internationalization of the Linear Collider project
Communication • Probably the most difficult problem • R&D is being done by industry • High price of business travel is a strong motivator • Already a number of products that use the web - Netmeeting from Microsoft, conferencing from Worldcom • Most collaborations already depend heavily on conventional video conferencing • It will only get better
A Video RelayService • Provides translation from voice to ASL • Performance is like a normal telephone conversation • This example is from www.csdvrs.com
Next Steps • Continue efforts in remote operation of CLEO and other detectors • Begin to use available conferencing tools to assess their effectiveness • Shelter Island Workshop to outline possible experiments on remote operation of accelerator systems. TTF at DESY, NICADD (A0 test facility at Fermilab) are possibilities
Opportunities for University Groups • Use the tools to get involved in accelerator physics research to provide the horsepower to actually construct the Linear Collider • As the test facilities develop there will be many opportunities to confront simulations with experiment • We can use the help in getting the most out of CESR C by developing “smart” tuning software as an example