GLC Project Report Roadmap (April 2003)

The Japanese are about two years ahead in determining sites and construction for the Global Linear Collider. Fermi Lab has only begun researching its sites in Northern Illinois. You would think a multi-billion dollar construction project expected to take three years would generate more interest. The link in the title will take you to the Japanese study (English language version).

The table below is taken from the linked PDF.

Table 1.5: Spin-off of technologies ; invented, pioneered or highly motivated by high energy physics experiments [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23].

Accelerator Application

synchrotron light super-fine processing of semi-conductor, non-destructive inspection,
material structure analysis, ultra-micro analysis
free-electron X-ray laser nuclear fusion, surface analysis, super-fine processing, living-cell holography
electron beam material curing and cross-linking, disinfection, sterilization, smoke purification, nuclear-waste processing
neutron beam material structure analysis, radio-activation analysis
proton beam cancer treatment, nuclear-waste processing
heavy-ion beam cancer treatment, inertial fusion reactor
muon beam muon-catalyzed nuclear fusion
radio-isotope production positron CT, medical tracer, non-destructive inspection, de-germination

Accelerator Technology
Subject Related Technologies Applications

magnets ultra-high-field superconducting magnet NMR
high-permeability ferrite power transformer
radio-frequency superconducting cavity
high-power high-frequency klystron
ultra-precision machining
copper-plating
ultra-high vacuum surface coating CRT / TV
radiation environment robot
radiation-resistant material space station
facility precision survey and alignment civil engineering

Detector Technology
Subject Related Technologies Applications

electronics fast / highly-integrated
radiation resistance / low-power space station
computing and fast / parallel / large data GRID
data handling image reconstruction and processing
Monte Carlo / statistical analysis financial engineering
Networking WWW
optical device high gain / high sensitivity / low noise noctovision
large area / dense array / imaging positron CT
radiation detector crystals positron CT
chambers security X-ray scanners
superconducting magnet large aperture / thin material NMR / MRI

Physics Study
Subject Related Technologies Applications

Lattice-QCD Super/parallel computing Earth simulation