Opportunities in Linear Collider R

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Opportunities in Linear Collider RDEnabled by
GAN

• Don Hartill
• Cornell
• April 19, 2002

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Communication

• Probably the most difficult problem
• RD 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

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An Example of a Web Video Conference
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A Video RelayService

• Provides translation from voice to ASL
• Performance is like a normal telephone
  conversation
• This example is from www.csdvrs.com

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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

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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