Archives of Compact Linear Collider, CLIC
Identity Statement | Context | Content and Structure | Conditions of access and use | Description control | Database
Identity Statement [Top]
Reference code(s)
CERN-ARCH-CLIC-001 to CERN-ARCH-CLIC-007
Title
Archives of Compact Linear Collider, CLIC
Date(s)
1987 - 1998
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Extent of the unit of description
8 items, 1 linear metres
Context [Top]
Name of creator
CLIC Physics Study Group, Proton Synchrotron (PS) Division, CERN
Administrative history
In 1985 a member of the LEP division set-up a panel to advise the Long Range Planning Committee, chaired by Carlo Rubbia, on the feasibility of the electron-positron linear collider at CERN. A small team from the LEP Division was designated to study the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project, the next generation of accelerator after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
In 1988 a group in the PS division began to design and build a test facility for CLIC at CERN. This work was still coordinated by a LEP member with contributions from EF, EP, LEP, PS, SPS, TH and ST as well as several outside laboratories.
In 1991 the first CLIC Test Facility (CTF) started.
From 1996 the second CLIC Test Facility (CTF2) produced a wealth of results during its six years of experimentation.
In 1998 a new facility (CTF3) was proposed that started operating in 2004 to explore the novel acceleration schemes for this type of linear collider.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Received from George Dome
Content & Structure [Top]
Scope and content
The Linear Collider project combined the advantages of a linear Accelerator (LINAC) and a circular collider. To limit the linear collider's length, the beam must acquire a considerable quantity of energy per metre travelled. The collision rate must also be sufficiencly high. Consequently, each beam must contain an enormous amount of densely packed particles and the two beams must be aligned with great precision.
Within the framework of the world-wide collaboration on Linear Colliders, the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study explores the technical feasibility of beam acceleration by travelling wave structures at room temperature and high frequency (30 GHz) powered from a drive beam, the so-called Two Beam Acceleration scheme. CLIC covers a center-of-mass energy range for electron-positron collisions of 0.5 to 5 TeV.
This collection contains notes from 1985 to 1998 and minutes from 1987 to 1995.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Nothing was destroyed.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
System of arrangement
The original order has been preserved. For the purposes of cataloguing the files have been described according to the following plan :
| CERN-ARCH-CLIC-001 | Minutes and Notes |
| CERN-ARCH-CLIC-002 to 007 | Notes |
Conditions of access and use [Top]
Conditions governing access
See file level description and the CERN operational circular No 3: rules applicable to archival material and archiving at CERN. In general, records on any subject that are over 30 years old, and all records of a purely scientific nature, may be consulted.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright is retained by CERN, no reproduction without permission.
Language / scripts of material
Most of the material is written in English.
Finding aids
Listed to file level in the CERN Archives Database.
Description control [Top]
Archivist's note
Description prepared by Marie Coosemans.
Date(s) of description
Geneva, the 24th September 2003, Revised 2007.