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International Linear Collider
The International Linear Collider will be a necessary tool for unlocking some of the deepest mysteries about the universe. The ILC will complement CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, allowing physicists to precisely explore extremely high-energy regions.
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Why Project X?
Project X would provide, by a large margin, the best neutrino, kaon and muon beams. The proposed facility would allow for numerous experiments at the intensity frontier. The facility also would allow scientists to develop the technologies for a future machine at the energy frontier.
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How Does a Muon Collider Work?
A muon collider complex would comprise several machines and many different components. Scientists across the world are developing and testing them.
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Project X Conceptual Design
The original design for Project X proposes an 8-GeV pulsed linear accelerator (red). The protons could be stored in the Fermilab Recycler storage ring and delivered to experiments requiring 8 GeV protons, or they could be transferred to the Fermilab Main Injector accelerator for acceleration to 120 GeV. Alternative design exists as well, and plans are still evolving.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has been known for innovations in the design and construction of particle accelerators. For more than twenty years now, the Tevatron at Fermilab, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, has opened a doorway to exploring the deepest mysteries of the universe. The Chicago-area lab is now learning the ropes of a new accelerator technology considered crucial to the future of particle physics: the superconducting radio-frequency (SRF) cavities. The laboratory is stepping up efforts to develop and test superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a key technology for the next generation of particle accelerators and the future of particle physics.
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ILC-SRF in the News
- World will unite for gadget to replicate its birth, says top particle physicist
-From Indian Express
20 Jan 2010 - US flexes its developing SRF muscles
-From symmetry breaking
19 Jan 2009 - US sends first ILC-type cavities to Japan
-From symmetry breaking
15 Jan 2010 - Brookhaven Lab, Advanced Energy Systems Open Hi-Tech Production Facility
-From Brookhaven Lab
15 Jan 2010 - Stimulus spending on SRF heats up with vacuum oven
-From Fermilab Today
15 Jan 2009
TTC workshop at Fermilab
Apr. 19-22, 2010
The mission of the TESLA Technology Collaboration is to advance SCRF technology R & D and related accelerator studies across the broad diversity of scientific applications, and to keep open and provide a bridge for communication and sharing of ideas, developments, and testing across associated projects.
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Fermilab posters from the Accelerator for Americas Workshop
Oct. 2009
Bob Tschirhart, Nikolay Solyak, Rajendran Raja and Shekhar Mishra presented posters at the Accelerator for America's Future Workshop.
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Workshop on Applications of High Intensity Proton Accelerators
Oct. 19-21, 2009
The purpose of the workshop was to explore the possibility of diversifying and maximizing the utilization of the proposed upgrade to the Fermilab accelerator complex and applying the technology developed for ProjectX to other areas of science.
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