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Lecture 1 Wednesday, 12 March 12:30 The Linear Collider [pdf] Tor Raubenheimer Lecture 2 Wednesday 19 March 12:30 New Technologies [ppt] Bob Siemann Lecture 3 Wednesday 26 March 12:30 Superfast X-Ray Sources Jerry Hastings
Abstracts:
The Linear Collider: "The worldwide HEP community
has endorsed the construction of a 500 GeV linear collider as the next major HEP
instrument. At present there are two technologies that could be used to
build the collider: a normal conducting rf system at 11 GHz (four times the SLAC
rf frequency) and a superconducting rf system at 1.3 GHz. Both approaches
plan to complete feasibility demonstrations during the next twelve months and
there are plans for the international community to select one of the two options
in the summer of 2004. This talk will review these two linear collider
designs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each."
New Technologies. "An introduction to advanced accelerator research will
be followed by an incomplete survey of some of the work in this field.
There will then be presentations of two topics of current research at SLAC.
The first of these is beam/plasma physics, which is being studied in experiments
E157, E162, E164 and E164X at the SLAC FFTB. One goal of this research is
doubling the energy of a linear collider with a "Plasma Afterburner". The
second topic is laser driven accelerators (the LEAP project and SLAC experiment
E163) that has the goal of taking advantage of recent developments in near IR
lasers for particle acceleration."
Ultrafast X-Ray Sources at SLAC: SPPS and LCLS. "The push toward
femtosecond x-ray pulses to probe both equilibrium and non-equibrium
dynamics of gases, liquids and solids has stimulated the development of linac
based ultrafast x-ray sources. The SLAC linac is a unique driver for such
sources and forms the basis of the SPPS, a spontaneous radiation source, and the
LCLS an x-ray free electron laser. I will describe the scientific
opportunities and the technological challenges these sources pose."