Following the decision to pursue a next-generation
linear collider using superconducting rf technology, work
on the Next Linear Collider (NLC) using a warm rf power
delivery system has ceased. The new, international
machine, the International Linear Collider (ILC), will
be designed by an Asian, European and North American
collaborative team effort. Planning and work by SLAC
toward the ILC are being documented and posted to the
new SLAC ILC web site
http://www-project.slac.stanford.edu/ilc/. Also, see
the new site for links to details on the decision, and
to the international organization of this exciting new
undertaking.
The NLC web site
will remain accessible as an archive of important work
done on the many systems needed to build a TeV center of
mass energy linear collider. However, once transitioning
to the new site is complete, the NLC site will only be
referenced through the new ILC site. We expect this
transition to be complete by the end of the calendar
year.