CLIC

CLIC is a proposed future particle accelerator that will be used to study subatomic particles and the fundamental forces of nature, such as the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force, as described by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann. The project is being developed by a collaboration of CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and other international particle physics laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory. CLIC will be used to study the properties of Higgs boson, W boson, and Z boson, which were discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider by ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment teams, including Peter Higgs and François Englert. The CLIC project is also supported by European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Introduction

CLIC is a proposed linear collider that will collide electrons and positrons at energies of up to 3 TeV, allowing physicists to study the properties of subatomic particles and the fundamental forces of nature, as described by Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein. The project is being developed by a collaboration of CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and other international particle physics laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory, with support from University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge. CLIC will be used to study the properties of Higgs boson, W boson, and Z boson, which were discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider by ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment teams, including Peter Higgs and François Englert, and to search for new particles and forces beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, as proposed by Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten. The CLIC project is also supported by European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, with contributions from Max Planck Society and Russian Academy of Sciences.

History

The concept of CLIC was first proposed in the 1980s by CERN physicists, including Herwig Schopper and Lyndon Evans, as a potential successor to the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP), which was operated at CERN from 1989 to 2000, with support from European Organization for Nuclear Research and International Committee for Future Accelerators. The CLIC project was formally established in 2004, with the goal of developing a linear collider that could collide electrons and positrons at energies of up to 3 TeV, allowing physicists to study the properties of subatomic particles and the fundamental forces of nature, as described by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann. The project has since involved a collaboration of CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and other international particle physics laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory, with support from University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge. The CLIC project has also received support from European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, with contributions from Max Planck Society and Russian Academy of Sciences, and involvement from Institute of Physics and American Physical Society.

Design

The CLIC accelerator will be approximately 50 kilometers long and will consist of two linear accelerators that will accelerate electrons and positrons to energies of up to 1.5 TeV before colliding them, using technology developed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron. The accelerator will be powered by klystrons and modulators developed at CERN and other laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. The CLIC detector will be designed to detect the products of the collisions, including Higgs boson, W boson, and Z boson, which were discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider by ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment teams, including Peter Higgs and François Englert. The detector will be designed and built by a collaboration of CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and other international particle physics laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory, with support from University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge, and involvement from Institute of Physics and American Physical Society.

Technology

The CLIC accelerator will use advanced accelerator technology, including superconducting cavities and klystrons, developed at CERN and other laboratories, including Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. The accelerator will also use advanced beam dynamics and control systems, developed at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron. The CLIC detector will use advanced detector technology, including silicon trackers and calorimeters, developed at CERN and other laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The detector will also use advanced data acquisition and data analysis systems, developed at University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge, with support from European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and involvement from Max Planck Society and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Applications

The CLIC accelerator will be used to study the properties of subatomic particles and the fundamental forces of nature, such as the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force, as described by Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein. The accelerator will be used to search for new particles and forces beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, as proposed by Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten. The CLIC accelerator will also be used to study the properties of Higgs boson, W boson, and Z boson, which were discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider by ATLAS experiment and CMS experiment teams, including Peter Higgs and François Englert. The CLIC project is also supported by European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, with contributions from Max Planck Society and Russian Academy of Sciences, and involvement from Institute of Physics and American Physical Society.

Future_Development

The CLIC project is currently in the development stage, with the goal of completing the accelerator and detector by the late 2020s, with support from CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and other international particle physics laboratories, including Fermilab and Brookhaven National Laboratory. The project will require significant advances in accelerator technology and detector technology, as well as the development of new data acquisition and data analysis systems, with involvement from University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Cambridge. The CLIC project is expected to provide significant advances in our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature and the properties of subatomic particles, as described by Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, and to search for new particles and forces beyond the Standard Model of particle physics, as proposed by Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten. The CLIC project is also supported by European Commission, National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, such as Department of Energy and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, with contributions from Max Planck Society and Russian Academy of Sciences, and involvement from Institute of Physics and American Physical Society. Category:Particle accelerators