HERA status

Author

Wiik, B.H.

Author_Institution

Inst. fuer Experimentalphys., Hamburg Univ., West Germany

fYear

1989

fDate

20-23 Mar 1989

Firstpage

431

Abstract

The electron-proton collider HERA (Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator) consists of two independent accelerators designed to store, respectively, 820-GeV protons and 30-GeV electrons and to collide the counterrotating beams head on in four interaction regions spaced uniformly around its 6.3 km circumference. In addition to HERA, several booster accelerators must either be constructed or modified. The civil engineering work has been completed; electrons were stored for the first time in the HERA electron ring in August 1988. Commissioning of the first two accelerators in the proton injection chain, the 50-MeV H^- linear accelerator and the 7.5-GeV DESY III synchrotron, has started. The central helium refrigerators have been running routinely for nearly two years. Production of superconducting magnets is well underway in industry, and the first magnets have already been installed in the tunnel

Keywords

beam handling equipment; electron accelerators; linear accelerators; proton accelerators; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; 30 GeV; 50 MeV; 6.3 km; 7.5 GeV; 820 GeV; DESY III synchrotron; H^-; HERA; Hadron-Electron Ring Accelerator; He refrigerators; booster accelerators; counterrotating beams; electron ring; electron-proton collider; linear accelerator; proton injection chain; superconducting magnets; Civil engineering; Colliding beam accelerators; Colliding beam devices; Electron accelerators; Electron beams; Linear accelerators; Magnetic heads; Particle beams; Proton accelerators; Synchrotrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1989. Accelerator Science and Technology., Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1989.73067

Filename

73067