Potential 20-TeV site in Illinois - Dekalb (open access)

Potential 20-TeV site in Illinois - Dekalb

The Batavia, Illinois location has all the necessary requirements for a major high energy physics laboratory, i.e., near a major airport and road system, many good universities within driving distance, a large pool of technical people in the area, all types of industry nearby, and centrally located. Even with these characteristics usually associated with urban areas, there also exists nearby open land where perhaps a 20 TeV collider could be located. Preliminary studies are being made of potential sites in Illinois for a 20 TeV collider. The largest ring that has been looked at has a 25 kilometer radius (30 mile diameter). This was picked since the lowest magnetic field (3 Tesla) would give 20 TeV and smaller rings should be easier to accommodate. The motivation for the siting of this ring was to find a location near Fermilab so that the infrastructure could be used including the Energy Doubler as an injector. One ring considered went through Fermilab and out toward the west. The obvious advantage of this ring would be to have the experimental areas on the Fermilab site. The difficulty with this ring is that it must be quite deep to pass under the Fox river twice. …
Date: September 21, 1983
Creator: Huson, F.R.
System: The UNT Digital Library