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In article <1992Apr16.155454.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov>, draper@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes...
> 
>Just to reiterate a point I made earlier, the limitation for an SSC-type
>machine is NOT the radiation, but the magnetic field used to constrain the beam
>into a circle. The magnetic field required to collapse a 20TeV ring to the size
>of a meter radius, whether it's electrons or protons or Buicks (the latter
>suffering almost no synchrotron radiation at all), would be 60,000 Tesla!
> 

Of course, if you had an accelerator that could yield 20 TeV/meter, then
there would be no need to make it a ring.  You would just make a 100 meter
long linear collider with 2000 TeV per beam.  Accelerators are only rings in
the first place because the feeble accelerating gradients must be applied over
and over again to get the high energies needed for useful physics.

-Scott

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Scott I. Chase
SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV