Colliders

Particle Beam Collider Work at SLAC

History: SLAC and Stanford have had a very long history of designing, building, and operating electron-positron colliders leading to several Nobel Prizes:

CBX [0.13 GeV x 0.13 GeV two ring collider at Stanford 1963-1967]
SPEAR [2.5 GeV x 2.5 GeV one ring collider at SLAC 1972-1988]
PEP [15 GeV x 15 GeV one ring collider at SLAC 1980-1988]
SLC [49 GeV x 49 GeV linear collider at SLAC 1989-1998]
PEP-II [3.1 GeV x 9.0 GeV two ring collider at SLAC 1998-2008]

Present research into particle beam colliders includes the following active topics:

e+e-, e-p, pp, hh collider designs
Interaction region design
Accelerator-detector backgrounds
High Order Mode (HOM) generation, mitigation, and heat removal
Ampere level beam generation and RF power
Single beam instabilities
Multi-bunch beam instabilities
High power collimators
Bunch-by-bunch feedback
High power fast bunch feedback kickers
Injection systems
Beam-beam effect

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