Design
The technology of superconducting accelerating cavities has a fundamental accelerating gradient limit of ~60 MV/m. Room temperature cavities, though less power-efficient, provide the possibility to generate higher RF gradients and hence allow a shorter accelerator length for the same collision energy. Since no conventional RF source can provide the necessary power for CLIC beam acceleration at a frequency of 12 GHz, a two-beam acceleration scheme has been designed. The high-current low-energy drive beam serves as an RF power source for the low-current high-energy main beam, making the whole machine a large power transformer. The main beams are brought into collision in the middle of the accelerator, where the detector is installed.
Total power consumption is estimated to be 415 MW for the 3 TeV version of CLIC.
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