[BTeam] Future Colliders for Particle Physics - "Big and Small"

[Geoffrey Krafft]

Good old Pisen Chen.

"Not inconceivable for an advanced technological society."

I think Jim Boyce and I were at that workshop, but am glad

that I forgot that Pisen quote!

Geoff


On 1/11/2018 8:48 AM, Jay Benesch wrote:
> The last section on getting to the Planck energy is amusing.
>
>
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03170
>
> Future Colliders for Particle Physics - "Big and Small"
> Frank Zimmermann
> (Submitted on 9 Jan 2018)
>
>     Discoveries at high-energy particle colliders have established the 
> standard model of particle physics. Technological innovation has 
> helped to increase the collider energy at a much faster pace than the 
> corresponding costs. New concepts will allow reaching ever higher 
> luminosities and energies throughout the coming century. 
> Cost-effective strategies for the collider implementation include 
> staging. For example, a future circular collider could first provide 
> electron-positron collisions, then hadron collisions (proton-proton 
> and heavy-ion), and finally the collision of muons. Cooling-free muon 
> colliders, realizable in a number of ways, promise an attractive and 
> energy-efficient path towards lepton collisions at tens of TeV. While 
> plasma accelerators and dielectric accelerators offer unprecedented 
> gradients, the construction of a high-energy collider based on these 
> new technologies still calls for significant improvements in cost and 
> performance. Pushing the accelerating gradients or bending fields ever 
> further, the breakdown of the QED vacuum may set an ultimate limit to 
> electromagnetic acceleration. Finally, some ideas are sketched for 
> reaching, or exceeding, the Planck energy.
>
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