The next step

Authors
Citation
A. Wagner, The next step, PHI T ROY A, 359(1779), 2001, pp. 443-453
Citations number
9
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Multidisciplinary
Journal title
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
ISSN journal
1364-503X → ACNP
Volume
359
Issue
1779
Year of publication
2001
Pages
443 - 453
Database
ISI
SICI code
1364-503X(20010215)359:1779<443:TNS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
High-energy accelerators and colliders have been essential tools in the sea rch for the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions. They have contributed greatly to the validation of the Standard Model. In the c oming years, new data will be collected at HERA, the Tevatron and, starting in 2005, at LHC. Considering the fruitful complementarity of hadron collid ers and lepton colliders, it is therefore desirable to extend the centre-of -mass energy of e(+)e(-) colliders from that presently obtained at LEP (ca, 200 GeV) into the TeV energy range, with luminosities well above 10(34) cm (-2) s(-1). Such high energies and luminosities can only be reached using e lectron-positron linear colliders. The physics potential of a high-energy e (+)e(-) collider and the success of the Stanford Linear Collider have led t o a worldwide coordinated effort to construct such a facility. Detailed des ign work as well as the construction of large test facilities is underway a t many major particle physics laboratories. In this review, the physics pot ential and design of TESLA, a collider based on low-frequency superconducti on radio frequency cavities, will be discussed.