Very Large Hadron Collider Physics and Detector Team

E-mail: vlhc@fnth32.fnal.gov .

Last modified: 4/28/98 by Stéphane Keller

Abstract

One of the options for an accelerator beyond the LHC is a hadron collider with higher energy. Work is going on to explore accelerator technologies that would make such a machine feasible. This team will concentrate on the physics and detector issues associated with a hadron collider with an energy in the center of mass of the order of 100 to 200 TeV.

A VLHC Study Group was started at Fermilab in April 1997.

The goal is to produce a VLHC Design Study that will eventually leads to an R&D effort. The study will include both the low field and high field accelerator options.

The effort is organized around 4 teams with Ernie Malamud as coordinator:

  1. Accelerator Physics Team, team leader: Shekhar Mishra,.
  2. Accelerator Systems Team, team leader: Bill Foster.
  3. Construction and Installation Team, team leader: Joe Lach.
  4. Physics and Detector Team, team leader: Dmitri Denisov (Stéphane Keller is not co-leader of this team anymore since 1/1/98).

If you want to be involve with this Study group, please contact the appropriate team leader

The VLHC was part of the Fermilab presentation to the HEPAP Subpanel that took place at Fermilab in August 1997 and received the support of the subpanel in its report.

Please keep us informed of any preprint that has material concerning the VLHC.

VLHC Physics and Detector Workshop

Held at Fermilab March 13-15 1997

Workshop Home page

Summary of the workshop (ps file).

Snowmass 96

    Individual Contributions to the Snowmass proceedings relevant to our subgroup:

    Summary of the VLHC Physics and Detector Subgroup, D. Denisov and S. Keller

    Summary that appeared in S. Holmes Plenary talk at Snowmass

    Accelerator working group summary paper High and low field approaches to VLHC design