Few open points for follow-up:
- Optimize losses in RCS chain for best overall performance, allowing different transmission in the two or three machines
- Acceptable longitudinal emittance growth in the RCS chain and how to quantify it exactly?
- Would two RCS be sufficient to accelerate from 60 GeV to 1.5 TeV?
- Cost functions per machine part: could one make an assumption for a cost per unit length of RF (plus some infrastructure cost offset per RF section), idem for unit length of magnets?
- Average gradient of RF sections: 30 MV/m
- Resistive wall impedance?
- Is transition gamma of ~20 a good number for the first RCS stage?
- FFA alternative for RCS?