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Title: An assessment of the antiproton-proton option for the SSC

Abstract

The Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) describes a proton-proton collider with an energy of 20 TeV per beam and a maximum luminosity of 10{sup 33}cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1} per collision point. This directly responds to the recommendation made by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation in July 1983. That recommendation called for the ``immediate initiation of a multi-TeV high-luminosity proton-proton collider project with the goal of physics experiments at this facility at the earliest Possible date.`` The primary Parameters of the SSC in the Conceptual Design Report have been chosen taking account of both the physics discovery reach of the machine and accelerator physics considerations. The endeavor of the study reported here was to compare the feasibility of an antiproton-proton collider with the proton-proton collider presented in the SSC Conceptual Design Report. The rapid advances in the technology of p{bar p} colliders at CERN and Fermilab suggest that p{bar p} might be a viable alternative to a PP collider (or might be a first stage of an eventual p{bar p} collider). There is Potentially a large cost saving from eliminating one 20 TeV ring ofmore » magnets since the protons and antiprotons share the same ring. Following this suggestion, workshops at the University of Chicago and at Snowmass have provided a forum for these ideas. These reports formed the starting point for our study.« less

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Superconducting Super Collider Lab., Dallas, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
72705
Report Number(s):
SSC-SR-1022
ON: DE95011084
DOE Contract Number:  
AC35-89ER40486
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; 66 PHYSICS; PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER; DESIGN; PARTON MODEL; ANTIPROTON SOURCES; COST; BEAM INJECTION

Citation Formats

. An assessment of the antiproton-proton option for the SSC. United States: N. p., 1986. Web. doi:10.2172/72705.
. An assessment of the antiproton-proton option for the SSC. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/72705
. 1986. "An assessment of the antiproton-proton option for the SSC". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/72705. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/72705.
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title = {An assessment of the antiproton-proton option for the SSC},
author = {},
abstractNote = {The Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) describes a proton-proton collider with an energy of 20 TeV per beam and a maximum luminosity of 10{sup 33}cm{sup {minus}2}s{sup {minus}1} per collision point. This directly responds to the recommendation made by the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel to the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation in July 1983. That recommendation called for the ``immediate initiation of a multi-TeV high-luminosity proton-proton collider project with the goal of physics experiments at this facility at the earliest Possible date.`` The primary Parameters of the SSC in the Conceptual Design Report have been chosen taking account of both the physics discovery reach of the machine and accelerator physics considerations. The endeavor of the study reported here was to compare the feasibility of an antiproton-proton collider with the proton-proton collider presented in the SSC Conceptual Design Report. The rapid advances in the technology of p{bar p} colliders at CERN and Fermilab suggest that p{bar p} might be a viable alternative to a PP collider (or might be a first stage of an eventual p{bar p} collider). There is Potentially a large cost saving from eliminating one 20 TeV ring of magnets since the protons and antiprotons share the same ring. Following this suggestion, workshops at the University of Chicago and at Snowmass have provided a forum for these ideas. These reports formed the starting point for our study.},
doi = {10.2172/72705},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/72705}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986},
month = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986}
}