Global Design Effort

{{short description|Team tasked with designing the International Linear Collider}}

The Global Design Effort (GDE) was an international team tasked with designing the International Linear Collider (ILC), a particle accelerator to succeed machines such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), with the endorsement of the International Committee for Future Accelerators.{{Cite web|url=http://icfa.fnal.gov/wp-content/uploads/LCCMoU_Nikhef.pdf|title=Memorandum of Understanding for Linear Collider Collaboration|date=17 December 2013|website=Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory|access-date=13 December 2016|archive-date=1 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201234012/http://icfa.fnal.gov/wp-content/uploads/LCCMoU_Nikhef.pdf|url-status=live}} Between 2005–2013, the GDE led planning, research and development, and produced an ILC Technical Design Report.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linearcollider.org/ILC/GDE|title=ILC - Global Design Effort|website=www.linearcollider.org|year=2013|access-date=14 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130702225429/http://www.linearcollider.org/ILC/GDE|archive-date=2 July 2013|url-status=dead}}

The Global Design Effort was headed by Barry Barish of Caltech, former director of the LIGO laboratory.