The Detector DCR

The preparation of the DCR has been started since LCWS2006 at Bangalore[1]. Four editors for the detector part, Ties Behnke, Chris Damerell, John Jaros and Akiya Miyamoto, have worked together with authors of sub-sections to prepare the document. The preliminary version has been open to the community after the workshop at Beijing (BILCW07)[2]. Taking into account comments from the community as well as those from the Review Panel, it is scheduled to be released in August this year[4]. The goal of the Detector DCR is to make the case that detectors can do the ILC physics, showing detector designs are within our reach, where we are in detector developments and where we are going. On the other hand, the DCR is neither a complete description of a detector nor a review of the ILC detector concepts. The detector DCR is based on Detector Outline Documents (DODs)[6, 7, 8, 9] prepared by four detector concept teams last year as well as new studies since then, but a little focus is put on concept specific issues. Selected topics of the detector DCR is presented in the next section and the plan for the final release is described in the subsequent section.