Overview of the Tevatron Collider Complex: Goals, Operations and Performance

Journal Article · Wed Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Submitted to JINST

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/6/08/T08001· OSTI ID:1016214

Holmes, Stephen; Moore, Ronald S; Shiltsev, Vladimir

For more than two decades the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider was the centerpiece of the world's high energy physics program. The collider was arguably one of the most complex research instruments ever to reach the operation stage and is widely recognized for numerous physics discoveries and for many technological breakthroughs. In this article we outline the historical background that led to the construction of the Tevatron Collider, the strategy applied to evolution of performance goals over the Tevatron's operational history, and briefly describe operations of each accelerator in the chain and achieved performance.

• Research Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE Office of Science
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-07CH11359
• OSTI ID: 1016214
• Report Number(s): FERMILAB-PUB-11-245-AD-APC; arXiv eprint number arXiv:1106.0909
• Journal Information: Submitted to JINST, Journal Name: Submitted to JINST
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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