The Very Large Hadron Collider: The farthest energy frontier

Conference · Thu Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2001

OSTI ID:787144

Barletta, William A

The Very Large Hadron Collider (or Eloisatron) represents what may well be the final step on the energy frontier of accelerator-based high energy physics. While an extremely high luminosity proton collider at 100-200 TeV center of mass energy can probably be built in one step with LHC technology, that machine would cost more than what is presently politically acceptable. This talk summarizes the strategies of collider design including staged deployment, comparison with electron-positron colliders, opportunities for major innovation, and the technical challenges of reducing costs to manageable proportions. It also presents the priorities for relevant R and D for the next few years.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Director, Office of Science (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 787144
• Report Number(s): LBNL-48358; R&D Project: 450101; TRN: US0110434
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference, Chicago, IL (US), 06/18/2001--06/22/2001; Other Information: PBD: 21 Jun 2001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
LINEAR COLLIDERS
DESIGN
HADRONS
HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
BEAM LUMINOSITY
PROTON BEAMS
ELECTRON-POSITRON COLLISIONS
COST