TESLA

I was cleaning some old junk out of my apartment and found a binder that I had rescued from a trash bin at CERN quite a while ago (I think I did it just for the binder and page protectors, but then I never used them for anything). It was full of papers from a workshop held in Italy in 1993. You will notice that this is a transparency of the old-fashioned kind -- a piece of plastic that you put onto a projector.

 

TESLA was the name of a proposed e+e- linear collider to be built at DESY that was still being talked about when I was an undergrad (2001-ish). It was later folded into the NLC effort, later renamed the ILC, which is still an ongoing R&D effort. It may even be built in Japan eventually (not sure about the timescale).

 

I was also amused to see stuff in the binder about CLIC, which is a linear collider effort still going on at CERN now. The R&D there focuses on building a collider on an even longer timescale (with more advanced technology) than the ILC. I didn't realize they were already talking about it in 1993.

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