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1. Title
Title of exhibit 
At the forefront of science and technology: The Linear Collider

2. Contact details for all correspondence
Brian Foster
Particle Physics,
University of Oxford,
Keble Road,
Oxford. OX1 3RH UK 
3. Name and institutions of other researchers involved
1.	Nicolas Delerue
2.	Gudrid Moortgat-Pick
3.	Andrei Nomerotski
4.	...
4. Description of scientific content and background
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Exciting new physics beyond what was studied at LEP lies within our close reach. To measure this physics with precision a particle collider, the International Linear Collider (ILC), is being designed.
This collider will allow a precise measurement of the properties of new particles likely to be found at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) but it will also the study of areas left unexplored by the LHC.
Building the ILC is a technical challenge from both the accelerator and the detectors point of view.
On the accelerator side new tools need to be developed to allow the production, monitoring and correction of beams of very high quality and very small size. On the detector side physicists will have to measure at very high rates the particles produced with a high degree of precision.
A major design report for the ILC has been released this year summarizing the very detailed studies done on this project.
The LCUK collaboration, the sponsor of this bid, is involved in several key aspect of the research toward the construction of the ILC. This collaboration gathers all UK institutes working on the ILC representing X institutes and approximately Y scientists.

5. Please summarise your research simply in one sentence / one brief paragraph:
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We are designing a new particle collider that will allow us to discover and measure precisely the smallest particles ever observed and the most fundamental laws of nature.

6. Please give us a brief summary of your research / proposed exhibit:
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This exhibit will explain how a particle collider works starting with the production of the particles all the way to their collision and then how these collisions are recorded, studied and how this information can be used to explain our world. The main challenges faced by those designing such colliders will be outlined. Components from real particle accelerators or detectors or prototypes built as part of the research toward the ILC will be featured. Hands-on and computer based activities will help the public get a better understanding of these challenges and their solutions.

7. Summarise why you think this topic will make a good and interesting exhibit for the public and post-16 students
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This exhibit will show how leading edge science and technology can be combined to produce giant scientific instruments. The detailed explanation of how such big scientific instrument is built and works is likely to fascinate any visitor with an interest for technology and the exhibition of prototypes will allow them to see the real thing. Visitors curious to know what is our current understanding of the structure of time, matter and space will find in this exhibitions many answers.
The presentation by researchers of the science they are working on will certainly appeal all those with an interest for science.

8. How would you bring your research 'to life' - what aspects could be explored in a 'hands-on' way by the public and how might you enable this?
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The exhibition will feature an accelerator beam line including a thermionic gun as particle source, an accelerating cavity, 2 quadrupoles and a bending magnet, all made either of ILC prototypes or of components sourced from real accelerators. Other hands-on will include either a spark chamber or a cloud chamber, a hands-on experiment where visitors can drive their own accelerator, computer based displays and games...

Did I forget anything?
This probably needs to be rewritten!

 9. If selected, in what ways can your exhibit be adapted in order to have an interactive presence on our website (eg polling questions; blog; film clips) See www.summerscience.org.uk for examples. 
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Several resources on the linear collider are already available online (see http://linearcollider.org) and the electronic resources used for the exhibition will also be made available online.

Did I forget anything? Do we have any more resources that could go on line? This is currently our weakest point.
This probably needs to be rewritten!

10. We are keen that exhibits are as new and cutting edge as possible.
Has your research been publicised already, or will it have been by the time of the Exhibition? Have you had any press coverage of your work? Please give brief details.
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The Engineering Design Report released earlier this year has enjoyed a world wide media coverage. This report includes research done by many other groups in other country as well as the work done in the UK. There has been no recent media coverage specific to the UK involvement in the ILC.

The GDE outreach team can probably tell us more about this.

11. To assist Committee members in the assessment process, please give details of 2 or 3 publications relevant to this research that have been authored or co-authored by the research group.
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The Reference Design Report is a comprehensive report detailing the design of the International Linear Collider http://www.linearcollider.org/rdr/

C.J.S. Damerell, Vertex detectors and the linear collider, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Volume 568, Issue 1, 30 November 2006, Pages 240-251

ATF extraction-line laser-wire system
L. Deacon et Al. Proceedings of PAC 2007

12. Any other comments
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We should add here names of people who have contributed material for the ILC exhibit
Anything else to add?