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The positron source is an essential component of the International Linear Collider (ILC) and is an area that poses some design challenges. One consideration is the material for the target, where the 1014 positrons per second for the ILC are…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Tim Lengler , Dieter Lott , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick , Sabine Riemann

The International Linear Collider (ILC) will collide polarised electrons and positrons at beam energies of 45.6 GeV to 250 GeV and optionally up to 500 GeV. To fully exploit the physics potential of this machine, not only the luminosity and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-10-13 C. Helebrant , D. Käfer , J. List

A photon-positron conversion target of the undulator or laser based polarized positron source is optimized using a modified GEANT-3 program adapted to count the spin transfer. High intensity positron beam with around 0.75 polarisation could…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-16 V. Gharibyan

A possible solution to realize a conventional positron source driven by a several-GeV electron beam for the International Linear Collider is proposed. A 300 Hz electron linac is employed to create positrons with stretching pulse length in…

The International Linear Collider is a planned electron-positron linear collider with its positron source producing positrons by aiming undulator radiation onto a rotating target. The resulting, highly divergent positron beam requires…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 M. Formela , N. Hamann , G. Moortgat-Pick , G. Loisch , M. Mewes , M. Thévenet , J. Osterhoff , G. Boyle

Future electron-positron linear colliders require a highly polarized electron beam with a pulse structure that depends primarily on whether the acceleration utilizes warm or superconducting rf structures. The International Linear Collider…

An unprecedented positron average current is required to fit the luminosity demands of future $e^+e^-$ high energy physics colliders. In addition, in order to access precision-frontier physics, these machines require positron polarization…

Positron sources are the key elements for the future and current lepton collider projects such as ILC, CLIC, SuperKEKB, FCC-ee, Muon Collider/LEMMA, etc., introducing challenging critical requirements for high intensity and low emittance…

The International Linear Collider is now proposed with a staged machine design, with the first stage at $\sqrt{s}=250$ GeV and an integrated luminosity goal of 2 ab${}^{-1}$. One of the questions for the machine design is the importance of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Jürgen Reuter

In the baseline design of the International Linear Collider (ILC) an undulator-based source is foreseen for the positron source in order to match the physics requirements. The baseline parameters are optimized for the ILC at sqrt(s)=500…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Manuel Formela , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick , Sabine Riemann , Andriy Ushakov

The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) is well-suited for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model and for precisely unravelling the structure of the underlying physics. The physics return of the ILC can be maximized by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Positron sources are critical components of the future linear collider projects. This is essentially due to the high luminosity required, orders of magnitude higher than existing ones. In addition, polarization of the positron beam rather…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 I. Chaikovska , R. Chehab , O. Dadoun , P. Lepercq , A. Variola

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is the next large scale project in accelerator particle physics. Colliding electrons with positrons at energies from 0.3 TeV up to about 1 TeV, the ILC is expected to provide the accuracy needed to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Marco Battaglia

The International Linear Collider is now proposed with a staged machine design, with the first stage at $\sqrt{s}=$~250 GeV and an integrated luminosity goal of 2~ab$^{-1}$. One of the questions for the machine design is the importance of…

One option at the International Linear Collider is to convert the electron beams into high energy photon beams by Compton scattering a few millimetres in front of the interaction region. Selected physics channels for this option have been…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Bechtel , G. Klaemke , K. Moenig , H. Nieto , H. Nowak , A. Rosca , J. Sekaric , A. Stahl

We review some recent arguments supporting the upgrade of the International Linear Collider by a polarized positron beam, in addition to the polarized electron beam. The examples presented here mainly focus on the impact of positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Osland , N. Paver

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 200-500 GeV center-of-mass high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider, based on 1.3 GHz superconducting radio-frequency (SCRF) accelerating cavities. The ILC has a total footprint of about…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 Nan Phinney , Nobukasu Toge , Nicholas Walker

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a future electron/positron collider at the energy frontier. Its physics goals are clearly focused on precision measurements at the electroweak scale and beyond. Beam energy and beam polarisation…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 Benedikt Vormwald

Different production processes involving the Higgs boson, such as annihilation and W/Z boson fusion, will be observed in the International Linear Collider (ILC). The ILC operates at a center-of-mass (CM) energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 200-1000 GeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-04 Ijaz Ahmed , Mashal Shakar , M. U. Ashraf , Jamil Muhammad , Taimoor Khurshid