German Lab to Host International Linear Collider

jabberjaw writes "Physicsweb is reporting that Germany's DESY lab has been chosen as the host of the International Linear Collider. Built at an estimated $5bn the ILC will utilizes supeconducting cavities operating at 2 Kelvin rather then the more conventional X-Band accelerators outlined by the US team at Stanford and the Japanese team at KEK. After the ILC's expected completion in 2010 the 30km long lab will have the ability to accelerate electrons and positrons at energies up to 1 TeV."

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Article submitter didn't RTFA - typical.

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abberjaw writes, "Physicsweb is reporting that Germany's DESY lab has been chosen as the host of the International Linear Collider."

physicsweb writes, "Particle physicists have chosen to base the proposed International Linear Collider on superconducting technology developed by an international collaboration centred on the DESY lab in Germany. The superconducting approach was chosen by an international panel ahead of a rival technology developed at Stanford in the US and the KEK lab in Japan."

Looks like abberjaw only read the title but not the first sentence of the article. In fact, site selection has not been made. abberjaw may confirm that this is so by looking at the second sentence of DESY's related press release; hopefully abberjaw can muster the patience to read that far this time. DESY would like to host the ILC and certainly this helps their chances.