Progress in the Next Linear Collider Design

Technical Report · Wed Oct 18 04:00:00 EDT 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/784741· OSTI ID:784741

Raubenheimer, Tor O ^[1]

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1. SLAC

An electron/positron linear collider with a center-of-mass energy between 0.5 and 1 TeV would be an important complement to the physics program of the LHC in the next decade. The Next Linear Collider (NLC) is being designed by a US collaboration (FNAL, LBNL, LLNL, and SLAC) which is working closely with the Japanese collaboration that is designing the Japanese Linear Collider (JLC). The NLC main linacs are based on normal conducting 11 GHz rf. This paper will discuss the technical difficulties encountered as well as the many changes that have been made to the NLC design over the last year. These changes include improvements to the X-band rf system as well as modifications to the injector and the beam delivery system. They are based on new conceptual solutions as well as results from the R and D programs which have exceeded initial specifications. The net effect has been to reduce the length of the collider from about 32 km to 25 km and to reduce the number of klystrons and modulators by a factor of two. Together these lead to significant cost savings.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER) (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 784741
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-8672
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
BEAM INJECTION
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COST
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HADRONS
KLYSTRONS
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LINEAR COLLIDERS
MODIFICATIONS
RF SYSTEMS