CERN Accelerating science

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Report number CERN-2015-005
Title High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) : Preliminary Design Report
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Author(s) Apollinari, G (ed.) (Fermilab) ; Béjar Alonso, I (ed.) (CERN) ; Brüning, O (ed.) (CERN) ; Lamont, M (ed.) (CERN) ; Rossi, L (ed.) (CERN)
Publication Geneva : CERN, 2015. - 285 p.
Series (CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs)
Subject category Accelerators and Storage Rings
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment CERN HL-LHC
Keywords HiLumi
Abstract The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest scientific instruments ever built. Since opening up a new energy frontier for exploration in 2010, it has gathered a global user community of about 7,000 scientists working in fundamental particle physics and the physics of hadronic matter at extreme temperature and density. To sustain and extend its discovery potential, the LHC will need a major upgrade in the 2020s. This will increase its luminosity (rate of collisions) by a factor of five beyond the original design value and the integrated luminosity (total collisions created) by a factor ten. The LHC is already a highly complex and exquisitely optimised machine so this upgrade must be carefully conceived and will require about ten years to implement. The new configuration, known as High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), will rely on a number of key innovations that push accelerator technology beyond its present limits. Among these are cutting-edge 11-12 tesla superconducting magnets, compact superconducting cavities for beam rotation with ultra-precise phase control, new technology and physical processes for beam collimation and 300 metre-long high-power superconducting links with negligible energy dissipation. The present document describes the technologies and components that will be used to realise the project and is intended to serve as the basis for the detailed engineering design of HL-LHC.
ISBN 9789290834229 (print version, paperback)
9789290834236 (electronic version)
DOI ebook: 10.5170/CERN-2015-005
Copyright/License publication: © 2015-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0)

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