UNK proton accelerator
The UNK proton accelerator was a planned large particle accelerator. Construction started in Protvino, near Moscow, Russia in the late nineties.[1]. Plans had been made for a TeV scale hadron collider already since the 1970's[2]. The plan was to a 3 TeV accelerator with superconducting magnets in stages, where the first stage was a construction relying on permanent magnets and reaching 400 GeV. Later development plans contained energy increases and moving from fixed targets to a true collider. Construction was however halted soon after laying out the 21 kilometers of circular underground tunnel due to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union.[3][4].
The accelerator tunnels today stand abandoned as a moment to gone times and are sometimes frequented by uninvited tourists.
See also
Superconducting Super Collider
References
- ^ "Perestroika and particle physics - work on Soviet UNK, Accelerator and Storage Complex". Science News. 19 March 1988. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ Tekniikka ja talous September 2010 - 40 vuotta sitten (referal of articles published 40 eyars earlier
- ^ Frontiers in strong interactions. Atlantica Séguier Frontières. 1996. p. 356. ISBN 9782863321997.
{{cite book}}:|first=missing|last=(help) - ^ Fedotov, Yu. (1996). "UNK Status". In S. Myers (ed.). EPAC96: Fifth European Particle Accelerator Conference : Sitges (Barcelona), 10 to 14 June 1996, Volume 1. CRC Press. pp. 405–409. ISBN 9780750303873. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
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