The CERN antiproton collider programme: accelerators and accumulation rings

• Published in: Physics reports Vol. 403-404; pp. 91 - 106
• Main Authors: Koziol, H., Möhl, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01-12-2004
• Subjects: Antiproton accumulation; Antiproton collection; Antiproton production; Proton–antiproton collider; SPS Collider, Intermediate vector bosons; Stochastic cooling; AA; SPS Collider, Intermediate vector bosons; 29.27.-a; AC; 14.70.Hp; 14.70.Fm; Stochastic cooling; 29.20.-c; Antiproton accumulation; Proton–antiproton collider; Antiproton collection; Antiproton production; 29.25.-t
• ISSN: 0370-1573; 1873-6270
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2004.09.001

One of CERN's most daring and successful undertakings was the quest for the intermediate bosons, W and Z. In this paper, we describe the accelerator part of the venture which relied on a number of innovations: an extension of the budding method of stochastic cooling by many orders of magnitude; the construction of the Antiproton Accumulator, depending on several novel accelerator methods and technologies; major modifications to the 26 GeV PS Complex; and the radical conversion of the 300 GeV SPS, which just had started up as an accelerator, to a proton–antiproton collider. The SPS Collider had to master the beam–beam effect far beyond limits reached ever before and had to function in a tight symbiosis with the huge detectors UA1 and UA2.