Abstract
The CLIC study is exploring the scheme for an electron-positron collider with a center-of-mass energy of 3 TeV in order to make the multi-TeV range accessible for lepton physics. The current goal of the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology by the year 2010. Recently, important progress has been made concerning the high-gradient accelerating structure tests and the experiments with beam in the CLIC test facility, CTF3. Several important aspects of the project are dealt with through international collaborations, which has considerably boosted the CLIC study.
Highlights
Electron-positron linear colliders are considered as the most desirable HEP facility to complement the LHC in the future
A close Compact Linear Collider (CLIC)/International Linear Collider (ILC) collaboration has been established on subjects with strong synergies in different working groups [1]
It is assumed that the entire beam delivery system (BDS) and part of the detector will need to be rebuilt
Summary
Electron-positron linear colliders are considered as the most desirable HEP facility to complement the LHC in the future. Two alternative linear collider projects are presently being developed, the International Linear Collider (ILC), based on superconducting technology in the TeV range, and the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC), based on the novel approach of two beam acceleration to extend linear colliders into the multi-TeV range. These two studies are complementary in the preparation for the most appropriate facility after the LHC era. In the following the CLIC complex subsystems are briefly described with emphasis on their technical challenges and the related existing experimental facilities
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