HiLumi LHC

Full Name
FP7 High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider Design Study

Start Date:
2011-11-01

End Date:
2015-10-31

Duration:
36 months

Grant Agreement No. / Project Reference No.
284404

Project Website
HiLumi LHC

Abstract
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest scientific instrument ever built. It has been exploring the new energy frontier since 2009, gathering a global user community of 7,000 scientists. It will remain the most powerful accelerator in the world for at least two decades, and its full exploitation is the highest priority in the European Strategy for Particle Physics, adopted by the CERN Council and integrated into the ESFRI Roadmap.

To extend its discovery potential, the LHC will need a major upgrade around 2020 to increase its luminosity (rate of collisions) by a factor of 10 beyond its design value. As a highly complex and optimized machine, such an upgrade of the LHC must be carefully studied and requires about 10 years to implement.

The novel machine configuration, called High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), will rely on a number of key innovative technologies, representing exceptional technological challenges, such as cutting-edge 13 tesla superconducting magnets, very compact and ultra-precise superconducting cavities for beam rotation, and 300-metre-long high-power superconducting links with zero energy dissipation.

DESY Participation
WP2: Accelerator Physics + Performance

Contact at DESY
Rainer Wanzenberg(at)DESY.de
Tel.: +4940-8998-2496