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The Superconducting Super Collider
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Much has been written elsewhere about the scientific promise of the SSC; the interested reader can find discussion of the science in the following publications: 1. Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Report of the Research Briefing Panel on Scientific Opportunities and the Super Collider, National Academy Press, 1985.
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5-7. THE SSC AS A SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT The SSC will have two counterrotating, tightly focused streams of protons guided along nearly circular orbits by superconducting magnets (see Figure 1)
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warehouses. shops and offices Operation of injection system Injection system loading protons into clockwise beam pipe of main ring Injection system loading protons into counterclockwise beam pipe of main ring Main ring sustaining dual proton beams The size and power of the underground SSC would allow narrow beams of protons to collide at almost the speed of light.
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The tunnel will contain two evacuated tubes with proton beams moving in opposite directions and about 9500 powerful electromagnets -- spaced along the beam lines -- to keep the proton beams tightly focused in the evacuated tubes and constrained to closed, nearly circular orbits. (About 8000 bending (dipole)
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>s O) 01 c CD ~o O 20TeV Detector 40Te\ COLLIDER 20TeV FIXED-TARGET ACCELERATOR Beam energy FIGURE 2 The advantage of a collider.
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When the protons are at the desired energy level, it will be possible to deflect the two beams so that they collide head-on with one another in the center of the particle detectors that surround the beams at the interaction points. After acceleration to full energy, the beams will continue to circulate for many hours while the experimental detectors record collision events.
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S.S. HELIUM CONTAINMENT SHELL 80° K SHIELD 20' K SHIELD VACUUM SHELL LIQUID NITROGEN 20° K HELIUM GAS SUPPORT PEDESTAL FIGURE 4 Detail of magnet assembly.
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Approximately every 5 miles along the 53-mile tunnel, a cluster of surface buildings -- housing cryogenic refrigerators, helium compressors, power supplies, and support facilities, and providing points of access -- will be visible. Additional shafts allowing access to the collider tunnel will be located midway between adjacent service areas.
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The auxiliary support buildings -- fire, rescue, site patrol, visitor services, waste management, and vehicle storage buildings -- will provide services to the entire complex. The central laboratory facilities with their associated office and shop buildings, and assembly and staging areas, will be arranged like a small college campus.
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are brought into the community in connection with schools, stores, maintenance, services, and other support facilities. Thus the SSC is likely to create additional employment in the community at large and could generate demand for additional housing, schools, and other services beyond what is required for the SSC staff itself.
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