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  • How much power will CLIC use?

    Designed to be a high luminosity, high energy linear collider, CLIC will inevitably need high power. Compared to an accelerator using superconducting technology, CLIC nevertheless has very low power consumption in stand-by or “waiting-for-beam” mode. A preliminary analysis of the overall CLIC energy consumption per year for the various stages shows that the first stage…

  • Why does CLIC have sectors?

    The two main CLIC linacs are each divided into 24 sectors. Each sector is 878 m long, and contains around 3000 accelerating structures. A fresh drive beam is injected into each sector to accelerate the main beam. At the end of the sector, the spent drive beam is dumped and a new drive beam is…

  • What happens to the drive beams after they have been used?

    Each spent drive beam will already have lost 90% of its power in the PETS. After each of the 48 decelerating sectors the drive beam must be bent away from the linac, leaving enough space for a new drive beam to be injected to the next sector. The old beam is bent away using a…