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A 233 km Tunnel for Lepton and Hadron Colliders

Accelerator Physics 2015-06-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

A decade ago, a cost analysis was conducted to bore a 233 km circumference Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) tunnel passing through Fermilab. Here we outline implementations of e+ee^+e^-, ppˉp \bar{p}, and μ+μ\mu^+ \mu^- collider rings in this tunnel using recent technological innovations. The 240 and 500 GeV e+ee^+e^- colliders employ Crab Waist Crossings, ultra low emittance damped bunches, short vertical IP focal lengths, superconducting RF, and low coercivity, grain oriented silicon steel/concrete dipoles. Some details are also provided for a high luminosity 240 GeV e+ee^+ e^- collider and 1.75 TeV muon accelerator in a Fermilab site filler tunnel. The 40 TeV ppˉp \bar{p} collider uses the high intensity Fermilab pˉ\bar{p} source, exploits high cross sections for ppˉp \bar{p} production of high mass states, and uses 2 Tesla ultra low carbon steel/YBCO superconducting magnets run with liquid neon. The 35 TeV muon ring ramps the 2 Tesla superconducting magnets at 9 Hz every 0.4 seconds, uses 250 GV of superconducting RF to accelerate muons from 1.75 to 17.5 TeV in 63 orbits with 71% survival, and mitigates neutrino radiation with phase shifting, roller coaster motion in a FODO lattice.

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@article{arxiv.1207.7354,
  title  = {A 233 km Tunnel for Lepton and Hadron Colliders},
  author = {D. J. Summers and L. M. Cremaldi and A. Datta and M. Duraisamy and T. Luo and G. T. Lyons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.7354},
  year   = {2015}
}

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LaTex, 6 pages, 1 figure, Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop, Austin, TX, 10-15 June 2012