Editing International Linear Collider (section)

== Merging of regional proposals into a worldwide project ==

In August 2004, the International Technology Recommendation Panel (ITRP) recommended<ref>{{cite web
| title = Final International Technology Recommendation Panel report
| url = http://www.fnal.gov/directorate/icfa/recent_lc_activities_files/ITRP_Report_Final.pdf
| year = 2004
| access-date = 2012-11-19
| publisher = ICFA (International Committee for Future Accelerators)
}}</ref> a [[Superconducting Radio Frequency|superconducting radio frequency]] technology for the accelerator. After this decision the three existing linear collider projects – the Next Linear Collider (NLC), the Global Linear Collider (GLC) and Teraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (TESLA) – joined their efforts into one single project (the ILC). In March 2005, the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) announced Prof. [[Barry Barish]], director of the [[LIGO]] Laboratory at [[Caltech]] from 1997 to 2005, as the Director of the [[Global Design Effort]] (GDE). In August 2007, the Reference Design Report for the ILC was released.<ref>{{cite web
| title = ILC Reference Design Report
| url = http://www.linearcollider.org/rdr/
| date = August 2007
| access-date = 2009-05-21
| publisher = ILC [[Global Design Effort]] and World Wide Study
| format = PDF
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081218073609/http://www.linearcollider.org/rdr/
| archive-date = 2008-12-18
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> [[Physicists]] working on the GDE completed a detailed ILC design report, publishing it in June 2013.<ref name=":0" />