The accelerator after next

The next Linear Collider Test Accelerator+

During the past several years, there has been tremendous progress on the development of the RF system and accelerating structures for a Next Linear Collider (NLC). Developments include high-power klystrons, RF pulse compression systems and damped/detuned accelerator structures to reduce wakefields. In order to integrate these separate development efforts into an actual X-band accelerator capabl...

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The next Linear Collider Test Accelerator: Status and Results

At SLAC, we are pursuing the design of a Next Linear Collider (NLC) which would begin with a center-of-mass energy of 0.5 TeV, and would be upgradable to 1.0 TeV and beyond [1]. To achieve this high energy, for the past several years we have been working on the development of a high-gradient 11.4-GHz (X-band) linear accelerator for the main linac of the collider. In this paper, we present the s...

What Next after Anonymity?

In recent years, interest has shifted from protecting the confidentiality of data to protecting the confidentiality of metadata. The police often learn more from traffic analysis than from content interception; thus anonymity becomes more important than confidentiality in the classical sense. Many researchers have been working with systems such as remailers and Tor in order to provide anonymity...

The NLRA After Seventy Years: What Next?

This paper asks whether the NLRA can remain relevant in a competitive economy where nonunion employer discretion is the low-cost workplace governance form. We explore changes that would enhance worker participation and individual and collective voice in the nonunion (and possibly union) private sector. Examined are changing the labor law default to some form of a nonunion works council and narr...