LHC Accelerator Research Program
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The U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) coordinates research and development in the United States related to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN[1]. The goals of the program are[2]:
- Advance International Cooperation in High Energy Accelerators
- Advance High Energy Physics
- Help bring the LHC on and up to design performance quickly
- Improve LHC performance by advances in accelerator understanding and instrumentation
- Use LHC as a tool to gain deeper knowledge of accelerator science and technology
- Extend LHC as a frontier HEP instrument with a timely luminosity upgrade
- Advance U.S. Accelerator Science and Technology
- Keep skills sharp by helping to commission the LHC
- Conduct forefront AP research and development
- Advance U.S. capabilities to improve the performance of our own machines
- Prepare U.S. scientists to design next generation colliders
- Develop technologies necessary for next generation colliders
LARP was first proposed in 2003 as a collaboration between the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[3]. The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory joined the program shortly thereafter[4].