What, Why, and Who, is ICFA?

[摘要] ICFA plays an important role as a forum for discussions transcending national or regional boundaries on the future of high-energy accelerators and their associated particle physics, detectors and technology. It is probably true that, to paraphrase an old expression, if ICFA didn't exist, something very similar would have to be invented. As appeared to be true in the 1970s, projects in our field are becoming so large and costly that no single country or group of countries can carry them out alone; more and more international discussion and cooperation is needed. This will be especially relevant if the next major accelerator is a linear e + e - collider in the hundreds of GeV energy range.

[发布日期] 2000-10-24 [发布机构] Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

[关键词] Linear Colliders;Energy Range;43 Particle Accelerators;High Energy Physics;Accelerators