More than 15,000 accelerators (value estimated in 2000) are in use around the world and more than 97% of these accelerators are used for different industrial and commercial applications and this number is still growing. Electron linacs for radiotherapy represent one third of all the existing accelerators. This proposal looks at the R&D of key components of all next generation of accelerators: RF cavities and magnets.
In the last century accelerators played a key role and we expect they will certainly continue playing a key role also in the coming decades in particular in high-energy physics. For this reason, a few weeks ago, has been launched the next call of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPG). It opens the opportunity to submit new ideas for the next generation of accelerators, and as it is stated at p. 36 of the final document approved unanimously by the CERN Council in Lisbon at the special meeting held on July 14, 2006:
¡°¡ In order to be in the position to push the energy and luminosity frontier even further it is vital to strengthen the advanced accelerator R&D programme; a coordinated programme should be intensified, to develop the CLIC technology and high-performance magnets for future accelerators, and to play a significant role in the study and development of a high-intensity neutrino facility.¡±
New technologies are required to achieve the multi-TeV energies of the future e+/e- linear colliders and other foreseen storage rings such as neutrino facilities or x-ray FEL. However, a mandatory condition to achieve these energies is the generation of high-frequency high-power RF accelerating gradients well above 120 MeV/m.
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Bruno Spataro
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Augusto Marcelli
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