Chapter 10
The Largest Accelerators and Colliders
of Their Time
K. Hübner, S. Ivanov, R. Steerenberg, T. Roser, J. Seeman, K. Oide,
Karl Hubert Mess, Peter Schmüser, R. Bailey, and J. Wenninger
10.1 Proton Accelerators and Colliders
K. Hübner · S. Ivanov · R. Steerenberg
10.1.1 CERN Proton Synchrotron (CPS)
The Study Group for a GeV-scale Proton Synchrotron was launched in 1952 at
CERN. Initially, an up-scaled version of the 3 GeV Cosmotron was considered but
soon a new design based on the newly discovered alternating-gradient principle and
promising a proton energy of 30 GeV was adopted by the CERN Council in the
same year. In order to limit cost the energy was subsequently limited to 25 GeV
K. Hübner · R. Steerenberg · K. Oide · K. H. Mess · R. Bailey () · J. Wenninger
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Meyrin, Genève, Switzerland
e-mail: Rende.Steerenberg@cern.ch; roger.bailey@cern.ch; jorg.wenninger@cern.ch
S. Ivanov
Institute of High Energy Physics, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: sergey.ivanov@ihep.ru
T. Roser
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, NY, USA
e-mail: roser@bnl.gov
J. Seeman
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA
e-mail: seeman@slac.stanford.edu
P. Schmüser
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: Peter.Schmueser@desy.de
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Myers, H. Schopper (eds.), Particle Physics Reference Library,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34245-6_10
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The Largest Accelerators and Colliders
of Their Time
K. Hübner, S. Ivanov, R. Steerenberg, T. Roser, J. Seeman, K. Oide,
Karl Hubert Mess, Peter Schmüser, R. Bailey, and J. Wenninger
10.1 Proton Accelerators and Colliders
K. Hübner · S. Ivanov · R. Steerenberg
10.1.1 CERN Proton Synchrotron (CPS)
The Study Group for a GeV-scale Proton Synchrotron was launched in 1952 at
CERN. Initially, an up-scaled version of the 3 GeV Cosmotron was considered but
soon a new design based on the newly discovered alternating-gradient principle and
promising a proton energy of 30 GeV was adopted by the CERN Council in the
same year. In order to limit cost the energy was subsequently limited to 25 GeV
K. Hübner · R. Steerenberg · K. Oide · K. H. Mess · R. Bailey () · J. Wenninger
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Meyrin, Genève, Switzerland
e-mail: Rende.Steerenberg@cern.ch; roger.bailey@cern.ch; jorg.wenninger@cern.ch
S. Ivanov
Institute of High Energy Physics, Moscow, Russia
e-mail: sergey.ivanov@ihep.ru
T. Roser
Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, NY, USA
e-mail: roser@bnl.gov
J. Seeman
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA
e-mail: seeman@slac.stanford.edu
P. Schmüser
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
e-mail: Peter.Schmueser@desy.de
© The Author(s) 2020
S. Myers, H. Schopper (eds.), Particle Physics Reference Library,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34245-6_10
585