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

[David Douglas]

Clarke's 3rd Law... ;)
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On 1/11/2018 9:23 AM, Geoffrey Krafft wrote:
> Good old Pisen Chen.
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> "Not inconceivable for an advanced technological society."
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> I think Jim Boyce and I were at that workshop, but am glad
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> that I forgot that Pisen quote!
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> Geoff
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>
> On 1/11/2018 8:48 AM, Jay Benesch wrote:
>> The last section on getting to the Planck energy is amusing.
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>> https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.03170
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>> 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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