Petavac: 100 TeV hadron collisions in the SSC tunnel

ORAL

Abstract

Nb$_{3}$Sn superconductor has been tamed into practical use to make possible high-field dipoles (16 T) and solenoids (25 T). A ring of Nb$_{3}$Sn dipoles and quadrupoles could be installed in the SSC tunnel in Waxahatchie to make a hadron collider with 100 TeV collision energy - 7 times higher than the design energy of CERN's LHC. The Petavac would access new physics through boson fusion, making it possible to observe signals from supersymmetry and superstrings up to $\sim $10 TeV mass scale.

Authors

  • Peter McIntyre

    Texas A\&M University, Texas A\&M University Department of Physics

  • Akhdiyor Sattarov

    Texas A\&M University