The Development of Energy-Recovery Linacs
Abstract
Energy-recovery linacs (ERLs) have been emphasised by the recent (2020) update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics as one of the most promising technologies for the accelerator base of future high-energy physics. The current paper has been written as a base document to support and specify details of the recently published European roadmap for the development of energy-recovery linacs. The paper summarises the previous achievements on ERLs and the status of the field and its basic technology items. The main possible future contributions and applications of ERLs to particle and nuclear physics as well as industrial developments are presented. The paper includes a vision for the further future, beyond 2030, as well as a comparative data base for the main existing and forthcoming ERL facilities. A series of continuous innovations, such as on intense electron sources or high-quality superconducting cavity technology, will massively contribute to the development of accelerator physics at large. Industrial applications are potentially revolutionary and may carry the development of ERLs much further, establishing another shining example of the impact of particle physics on society and its technical foundation with a special view on sustaining nature.
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@article{arxiv.2207.02095,
title = {The Development of Energy-Recovery Linacs},
author = {Chris Adolphsen and Kevin Andre and Deepa Angal-Kalinin and Michaela Arnold and Kurt Aulenbacher and Steve Benson and Jan Bernauer and Alex Bogacz and Maarten Boonekamp and Reinhard Brinkmann and Max Bruker and Oliver Brüning and Camilla Curatolo and Patxi Duthill and Oliver Fischer and Georg Hoffstaetter and Bernhard Holzer and Ben Hounsell and Andrew Hutton and Erk Jensen and Walid Kaabi and Dmitry Kayran and Max Klein and Jens Knobloch and Geoff Krafft and Julius Kühn and Bettina Kuske and Vladimir Litvinenko and Frank Marhauser and Boris Militsyn and Sergei Nagaitsev and George Neil and Axel Neumann and Norbert Pietralla and Bob Rimmer and Luca Serafini and Oleg A. Shevchenko and Nick Shipman and Hubert Spiesberger and Olga Tanaka and Valery Telnov and Chris Tennant and Cristina Vaccarezza and David Verney and Nikolay Vinokurov and Peter Williams and Akira Yamamoto and Kaoru Yokoya and Frank Zimmermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02095},
year = {2022}
}