This award provides partial support for US students and lecturers to attend the Seventh International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders to be held at the Raja Ramanna Center for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) in Indore, India, 27 November through 8 December 2012. The program of the school will cover a wide range of topics related to lepton colliders, from beam dynamics to damping rings, from superconducting radio frequency technologies to precise instrumentation, from room temperature radio frequency technology to beam delivery systems . The school will serve as an opportunity for US students and post docs to interact with their counterparts from other regions of the world and to form collaborations and partnerships. The program is supported jointly by NSF Division of Physics, through its program in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics, and the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering, through its Global Venture Fund.
This project provided financial support for young US scientists attending the 2012 International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders, which took place from November 27 to December 8, 2012 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Indore, India. The school was endorsed by the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA), a leading organization of the world high-energy physics (HEP) and two world leading linear collider organizations – the International Linear Collider Global Design Effort (ILC GDE) and the Compact LInear Collider (CLIC) collaboration. Its goal was to train young generations for the next big machine after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), namely, a future lepton collider. Since the time scale from conception to completion of such a big machine is very long (15-25 years), the training and education of scientists and engineers for tomorrow is of critical importance. We must have a new army ready before the old soldiers fade away. The world interest in such a big machine is strong. The number of applications from 40 countries exceeded the number of students that we could accommodate by a ratio of 5 to 1. The admitted students represented a young, talented and highly motivated group. They received the best education at the school from a dozen renowned physicists in their respective fields: superconducting rf, room temperature rf, instrumentation, rf controls, electron and positron sources, linear accelerators, damping rings, ring colliders and beam delivery systems. The training they received have a wide range of applications, not only in HEP, but also in other research areas (such as light sources and spallation neutron sources) as well as in industry, national security, clean energy and medicine (isotope production, imaging and radiation therapy). Many of them will merge as leaders in science and technology 10 or 20 years from now.
