Chapter 10 The Largest Accelerators and Colliders of Their Time K. Hübner, S. Ivanov, R. Steerenberg, T. Roser, J. Seeman, K. Oide, Karl Hubert Mess, Peter Schmüser, R. Bailey, and J. Wenninger 10.1 Proton Accelerators and Colliders K. Hübner · S. Ivanov · R. Steerenberg 10.1.1 CERN Proton Synchrotron (CPS) The Study Group for a GeV-scale Proton Synchrotron was launched in 1952 at CERN. Initially, an up-scaled version of the 3 GeV Cosmotron was considered but soon a new design based on the newly discovered alternating-gradient principle and promising a proton energy of 30 GeV was adopted by the CERN Council in the same year. In order to limit cost the energy was subsequently limited to 25 GeV K. Hübner · R. Steerenberg · K. Oide · K. H. Mess · R. Bailey () · J. Wenninger CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Meyrin, Genève, Switzerland e-mail:
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[email protected] © The Author(s) 2020 585 S. Myers, H. Schopper (eds.), Particle Physics Reference Library, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34245-6_10 586 K. Hübner et al. Table 10.1 Basic parameters of the CPS [5] Accelerated particles Protons, lead ions Momentum protons/lead ions 26 GeV/c, 5.9 GeV/c nucleon Circumference [m] 200 π Magnetic lattice Alternating-gradient focusing, combined-function Focusing order FOFDOD Magnetic field index n = 288 Number of main magnets 100 Bending magnetic field 0.1013 T (inj.