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Chairman of the new group is Bill Willis of Columbia University, a GDE member of the first hour with lots of experience in not only real hands-on particle physics but also in large international collaborations and politics.He is accompanied by Eckhard Elsen of DESY, also an experimentalist-turned-machine expert.
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"We developed this idea together with the Executive Committee," explains Willis.
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"It will be an intense process," Willis predicts.
Willis does not see an overlap of the AAP mandate with that of the Project Advisory Committee: "The PAC works at a higher, less hands-on level and for instance has to cover accelerator and detectors.The ILC experience shows that our work tends to evolve on a timescale of months, and our group of contacts allows the AAP to stay in touch so that when the review is carried out, they are well informed about the project," he says.