PreGLCC viewed from Japan

Y.Totsuka for KEK

 

PreGLCC is an international organization prior to GLCC which is to build, operate and maintain LC.

 

1.     Organization: based on MOU between laboratories and universities

2.     Organizational structure
head quarter, three regional centers and a council

3.     Head quarter

•  Coordinate tasks of regional centers

•  Make reports to ICFA (= council)

•  Members supported by laboratories to which they belong

•  Other funds supported by relevant laboratories and/or countries

•  Venue: a laboratory other than DESY, KEK, SLAC
preferably outside the US unless the current visa problem is solved

•  Members of the head quarter
group leader (1), coordinators for overall LC (1) and basic LC components (*), coordinators for detector and physics (2), coordinator for site studies in each region (3), contact person to funding agency organizations (1), administrators (1), secretaries (2)
total 11+*

4.     Regional centers

•  Carry out items coordinated by the head quarter

•  Report status and results to the head quarter

•  Members supported by laboratories to which they belong

•  Other funds supported by relevant laboratories and/or countries

•  Venues:
American center: , Asian center: KEK, European center

•  Members are defined by each responsible laboratory

5.     Council

•  Members: ICFA members

6.     Charge:

•  Carry out and complete all items necessary for LC to be funded and to be built.

7.     Relation to funding agencies

•  PreGLCC is initially independent of funding agencies

•  When the funding agencies play roles in preGLCC is determined by a group formed by the funding agencies

8.     Items included in the charge

1．    Make overall scheduling

2．    Define the contents of CDR

3．    Make CDR and engineering R/D Plan

4．    Make assignments of work to regional centers

5．    Carry out engineering R&D

6．    Make construction-ready TRD (feasibility demonstration, industrialization, reliable cost estimate)

7．    Review progress of work at regional centers

8．    Establish the best way of the site selection

9．    Establish coordination with funding agency organizations

10． Define organization, schedule of GLCC

9.     Schedule
(Numbers correspond to the items shown above)
2005:　　　　　　 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
2006:　　　　　　 5, 7
2007　　　　　　 5, 7, 8, 9, 10
2008:　　　　　　 5, 7, 6, 8, 9
select site by calling a bid to interesting countries / regions,
establish GLCC
2009:　　　　　　 start LC construction

10.  Comments

•  We do not divide preGLCC to two phases, because the period before the construction is only 3 – 4 years which are too short.

•  We prefer the funding agencies not involved in the organization of preGLCC, because Japanese funding agency will be very slow to move. The agency is investing heavily at KEK, and has no room for a new project.

•  Similarly we prefer the site selection as late as possible because of the same reason.