Americas Organization for International Linear Collider

这项建议是请求国家科学基金会部分支持国际直线对撞机（ILC）北美区域主任的活动。ILC的物理目标是雄心勃勃和引人注目的。近年来，世界已达成共识，认为ILC应成为高能物理的下一个主要设施。在美国，高能物理顾问小组（HEPAP）将直线对撞机确定为美国基本粒子物理项目的最高优先级。在国家层面，美国能源部宣布将ILC列入其新设施的20年计划，认为它是正在考虑的中期项目中最优先的项目。为了提供一个框架，使全球粒子物理学界能够围绕其设计和建造ILC的努力进行组织，2002年，国际未来加速器委员会成立了国际线性对撞机指导委员会（ILCSC）。去年，ILCSC成立了国际技术推荐小组，成功地为ILC的主直线加速器选择了技术。今年早些时候，ILCSC创建了一个组织来领导机器设计的下一步工作：这个组织被称为全球设计努力（GDE）。GDE将建立一个中央小组和三个区域小组，分别来自亚洲、欧洲和北美，每个小组由一名区域主任指导。中央团队是ILC项目规划的焦点。由于这项建议支持实现国际法委员会的一个关键因素，其更广泛的影响是国际法委员会本身的影响。ILC是物理科学领域最令人兴奋的新项目之一。ILC所需的加速器物理研发将推动许多领域的最新技术，这些领域在整个加速器范围内都有应用。利用加速器作为前沿研究工具的材料科学、凝聚态物理、生物物理学和医学等领域将从中受益。此外，将提供培训机会，以开始解决目前全国加速器物理学家短缺的问题。

This proposal is a request to the NSF for partial support of the activities of the North American Regional Director for the International Linear Collider (ILC). The physics goals of the ILC are ambitious and compelling. In recent years, a world consensus has developed that the ILC should be the next major facility for high-energy physics. Here in the U.S., the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) identified the linear collider as the highest priority for the U.S. program in elementary particle physics. At the national level, the U.S. Department of Energy announced inclusion of the ILC in its 20-year plan for new facilities, according it the highest priority among the mid-term projects under consideration. To provide a framework around which the worldwide particle physics community can organize its efforts to design and build the ILC, in 2002, the International Committee for Future Accelerators formed the International Linear Collider Steering Committee (ILCSC). Last year, the ILCSC created the International Technology Recommendation Panel, which successfully made the choice of the technology for the main linear accelerator of the ILC. Earlier this year, the ILCSC created an organization to lead the next steps in the design effort for the machine: this organization is called the Global Design Effort (GDE). The GDE will establish a Central Team and three Regional Teams, one each from Asia, Europe, and North America and each one guided by a Regional Director. The Central Team is the focal point for ILC project planning. Since this proposal supports a key element in the realization of the ILC, its broader impact is that of the ILC itself. The ILC is one of the most exciting new projects in the physical sciences. The accelerator physics R&D required for the ILC will push the state of the art in many areas that have applications across the whole spectrum of accelerators. Benefits will accrue to fields, such as materials science, condensed matter physics, biophysics, and medical science, which utilize accelerators as their front-line research tools. In addition, training opportunities will be provided that can begin to address the current national shortage of accelerator physicists.