CLIC parameters and design

The CLIC beam physics team is active at many different levels within the CLIC Study: parameters definition, lattice design, performance optimization, assessment of imperfections and mitigation strategies, failure-modes, are some of the studies provided by the CLIC beam physics team. These studies are performed in close synergy with the technical teams developing the innovative hardware solutions envisaged for CLIC.

In recent years, experimental validation of models and techniques have also taken place, at facilities like FACET at SLAC, Fermi @ Elettra, and ATF2 at KEK. Major recent activities have included: the CLIC rebaselining process, where the entire CLIC design has been stretched to optimally match the physics requirements following up the first LHC run and the Higgs boson discovery.

The CLIC Beam Physics team is also sharing its expertise with third-parties in order to foster the transfer of CLIC technology to various projects. One recent example includes spreading the CLIC-like high-gradient acceleration to medical facilities for hadron therapy, such as the TULIP project. On a larger scale, CLIC is actively taking part in an international effort aimed at designing an FEL machine based on X-band technology, for both soft and hard X-ray production. Such a machine would be compact, efficient, and extremely cost effective.

Development and maintenance of some major codes in use within the linear collider community:
the tracking code PLACET the beam-beam code GUINEA-PIG	Codes page

CLIC PD Indico page

List of work packages CLIC-PD

CLIC Beam Physics meetings

CLIC X-band FEL parameters meetings

Recent publications and talks:

Experimental Validation of a Novel Compact Focusing Scheme for Future Energy-Frontier Linear Lepton Colliders by G.R. White et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 112:034802, 2014

Mitigation of ground motion effects in linear accelerators via feed- forward control by J. Pfingstner et al., Phys. Rev. ST AB, 17:122801, 2014

Experimental demonstration of a global dispersion-free steering correction at FACET by A. Latina et al., Phys. Rev. ST AB, 17:042803, 2014

Plans for an Australian XFEL Using a CLIC X-band Linac by M.Boland et al., IPAC14

Conceptual Design of a X-FEL Facility using CLIC X-band Accelerating Structure by Avni Aksoy et al., IPAC14

Collaborators and projects

Australian Synchrotron, AUSTRALIA	ALBA Synchrotron, SPAIN
Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), CHINA	Uppsala University, SWEDEN
School of Physics of Shandong University, CHINA	Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI Villingen), SWITZERLAND
Shangai Institute of Applied Physics (SINAP), CHINA	Ankara University group, TURKEY
Aarhus University, DENMARK	Ankara University Institute of Accelerator Technologies, TURKEY
Laboratoire de L'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), FRANCE	John Adams Institute / University of Oxford, UK
Centre de SACLAY, CEA, FRANCE	Cockroft Institute / University of Manchester, UK
National Technical University of Athens (NTU Athens), GREECE	John Adams Institute / Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL), UK
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF), ITALY	Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Sincrotrone Trieste, ITALY	Cornell University, USA
KEK, JAPAN	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA
University of Antananarivo, MADAGASCAR	Jefferson Laboratory, USA
University of Oslo, NORWAY	Northwestern University, USA
Istituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), SPAIN	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

Our partners


International Linear Collider	Facility for Advanced Accelerator Experimental Tests	Asian Regional Team for Linear Collider Accelerator Development ATF2	FERMI @ Elettra

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CLIC parameters and design

CLIC parameters and design

CLIC parameters and design