Hadron colliders (SSC/LHC)
- Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
- CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
The nominal SSC and LHC designs should operate conservatively at luminosities up to 10{sup 33} cm{sup {minus}2} s{sup {minus}1}. This luminosity is dictated by the event rates that can be handled by the detectors. However, this limit is event dependent (e.g. it does not take much of a detector to detect the event pp {yields} elephant; all one needs is extremely high luminosity). As such, it is useful to explore the possibility of going beyond the 10{sup 33} cm{sup {minus}2} s{sup {minus}1} level. Such exploration will also improve the accelerator physics understanding of pp collider designs. If the detector limitations are removed, the first accelerator limits occur when the luminosity is at the level of 10{sup 34} cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1}. These accelerator limits will first be reviewed. The authors will then continue on to explore even higher luminosity as the ultimate limit of pp colliders. Accelerator technologies needed to achieve this ultimate luminosity as well as the R and D needed to reach it are discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 33434
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9006267-; ISBN 981-02-0931-2; TRN: 95:009182
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 1990 summer study on high energy physics, Snowmass, CO (United States), 25 Jun - 13 Jul 1990; Other Information: PBD: 1992; Related Information: Is Part Of Research directions for the decade: Proceedings of the 1990 summer study on high energy physics; Berger, E.L. [ed.]; PB: 825 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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