SLAC has been investigating the feasibility of hosting the demonstration of Cool Copper Collider technology as an alternative approach for high energy e+e- collider [1]. This technology is based on the break through that SLAC researchers have made in pushing normal conducting RF acceleration structure towards extreme high gradient [2,3]. The ongoing design study aims for putting together a coherent plan and roadmap for addressing the required R&Ds to bring this technology towards more compact and cost-effective high energy linac. This talk will present the status along with brief introduction of accelerator R&Ds at SLAC.
[1] E. Nanni er al, https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/2022/conf/fermilab-conf-22-217-ad-lbnf-pip2-ppd-td.pdf
[2] V. A. Dolgashev, et al, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 171501 (2010); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3505339
[3] M. Nasr, E. Nanni, M. Breidenbach, S. Weathersby, M. Oriunno and S. Tantawi, “Experimental demonstration of particle acceleration with normal conducting accelerating structure at cryogenic temperature,” Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 093201 (2021); https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.24.093201