Summary of the NLC Accelerator Working Group

The NLC (Next Linear Collider) accelerator working group was concerned with a presentation and thorough discussion of the prospects for achieving a 0.5 TeV linear collider and an ex-amination of issues related to energy upgrades to attain 1.0 to 1.5 TeV in the center-of-mass. The contents of the talks and sub-sequent discussions are summarized in this paper. Highlights of R&D efforts toward the NLC that were underway during the Snowmass workshop are described. Finally, some of the recent results and issues from the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC), rel-evant to the design of a future linear collider, are also described. Further detail on most subjects can be found in the recently pub-lished “Zeroth-Order Design Report for a Next Linear Collider” (ZDR)