Engineering topics
Publications and source records attributed to Shiltsev, V. D..
Here we present a short summary of the “Workshop on Beam Acceleration in Crystals and Nanostructures” which has taken place at Fermilab on June 24–25, 2019.
The future of the world-wide HEP community critically depends on the feasibility of the concepts for the post-LHC Higgs factories and energy frontier future colliders. In this paper we overview the accelerator options based on traditional technologies and consider the need for plasma colliders, particularly, muon crystal circular colliders. We briefly address the ultimate energy reach of such accelerators, their advantages, disadvantages and limits in the view of perspectives for the far future of the accelerator-based particle physics and outline possible directions of R&D to address the most critical issues.
Crystals were used at Fermilab accelerators for slow extraction and halo collimation in the Tevatron collider, and for channeling radiation generation experiments at the FAST electron linac facility. In this paper we overview past experience and major outcomes of these studies and discuss opportunities for new crystal acceleration R&D program.