TBA Scheme with ION/Proton Driving Beam

TL;DR

This paper explores a two-beam accelerator scheme using ion or proton beams as drivers, highlighting its advantages over electron-driven schemes and considering existing large proton accelerators for future post-LHC applications.

Contribution

It proposes a preferable two-beam acceleration scheme with ion/proton drivers and discusses leveraging existing proton accelerators for future high-energy physics infrastructure.

Findings

Proton/ion driven TBA is preferable to electron-driven schemes.

Existing proton accelerators can be repurposed for future colliders.

Protvino could become a key site for post-LHC accelerator development.

Abstract

We are considering a two-beam accelerator (TBA) scheme with ion or proton beam as a driver. By comparison of the proposed scheme and the one with electron driver, we concluded, that TBA with ion/proton driver beam looks preferable. Existence of big proton accelerators in a few laboratories gives a boost for reconsideration of the baseline for post-LHC era. These Labs are FERMILAB, BNL, CERN and IHEP at Protvino, Moscow region. Protvino could emerge as one advantageous location and get stimulus for recovering the 600GeV-proton synchrotron in the existing~20km-long tunnel. This synchrotron was planned as a booster for 3x3TeV storage ring.