8–13 Aug 2011
Rhode Island Convention Center
US/Eastern timezone

Do optical-scale structures make suitable accelerators for colliders?

9 Aug 2011, 16:30
30m
557 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

557

Rhode Island Convention Center

Parallel contribution Accelerator Physics Accelerator Physics

Speaker

Dr Gil Travish (UCLA)

Description

Of the various advanced accelerator schemes that promise high accelerating gradients, optical-scale structures offer a distinct set of performance parameters along with their own challenges. In addition to the promise of an order of magnitude improvement in accelerating gradients (to ~GV/m) over conventional structures, these devices produce low charge, femto- to atto-second bunches at very high repetition rates (MHz-GHz). The implications for colliders are significant: beam disruption and background beamstraulung might be significantly reduced, but the bunch format may require changes in detectors and trigger systems. Some variants of the optical-scale structures can support flat (high-aspect ratio) beams, which may also be advantageous in a collider. In order to realized such a collider, these devices must demonstrate very high wall-plug efficiency, high reliability and long lifetimes. In this talk, I will attempt to answer the question posed in the title. I will review the present start-of-the-art in optical-scale structures and speculate on the mid- and long-term challenges to be overcome in order to prove their applicability to high-energy physics.

Primary author

Dr Gil Travish (UCLA)

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