Abstract
A 1% variation in the cost of an accelerator was not very important forty years ago, when a cyclotron fitted into a single room. Today, when the net cost of an accelerator such as the SSC is measured in billions of dollars, it is much more important to design for an optimum balance between cost and performance. While it is irresponsible to increase the cost of an accelerator more than necessary to make it work “sufficiently” well, it is more irresponsible to construct a machine which almost works, but does not. The problems of large accelerator design lie on the horns of this dilemma. Some aspects of a successful design, such as building in flexibility to enable development in initially unforeseen directions, are almost impossible to quantify. Architectural problems such as these are not addressed here, despite their subtlety and relevance. Neither is the most difficult task addressed — the task of defining what is meant by an accelerator working “sufficiently” well, in terms of needed performance parameters, such as luminosity, lifetime, or linear aperture. Instead, this chapter concentrates on the accelerator physics processes which are expected to limit the performance of the SSC.
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Peggs, S. (1990). Nonlinear Dynamics in the SSC — Experiment E778. In: Ferbel, T. (eds) Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics V. NATO ASI Series, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8001-0_7
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