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S L H C - P P
The Preparatory Phase of
the Large Hadron Collider upgrade (SLHC-PP)
is a project co-funded by the European Union in its 7th Framework Programme, CERN and 17 European research institutes and
universities.
April 2008 - March 2011
The main aim of
Preparatory Phase project of the Large Hadron Collider upgrade (SLHC-PP) is to prepare
the SLHC project for a decision on the approval of its
implementation by 2011. Beside the justification of SLHC by the
physics results and operational experience from the first years of
LHC running, the necessary ingredients for the approval will
include: the maturity of new technologies required for SLHC,
solutions for critical safety issues, and the formation of
collaborations for the implementation, including the definition of
work sharing and financial commitments. The SLHC-PP project is fully
set up to address these issues and to prepare for the approval by
the CERN council and by all other funding agencies involved.
SLHC-PP comprises
Coordinating, Support and Technical activities. The Coordinating
activities within SLHC-PP play a central role for the organization
of the new accelerator- and detector-upgrade collaborations, putting
in place project structures and collaboration management tools,
ultimately aiming for agreements on work-sharing and funding for the
implementation phase. Support activities address upfront priority
safety issues in the radiation protection domain. The Technical
developments address the construction of prototypes of Nb-Ti
high-field magnets with large aperture, the study of a new H- ion
source, field stabilization in superconducting accelerating
structures, and novel tracking detector power distribution.
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