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Title	Interaction Region Design for the Electron-Light Ion Collider ELIC
Author(s)	Montag, Christoph ; Bogacz, S A ; Derbenev, Yaroslav S ; Merminga, Lia
Affiliation	(BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York) ; (Jefferson Lab, Newport News, Virginia)
Publication	2005
In:	21st IEEE Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, USA, 16 - 20 May 2005, pp.2824
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	The Electron-Light Ion Collider ELIC proposed by Jefferson Lab aims at very high luminosities for collisions of 150 GeV protons on 7 GeV electrons. To achieve these high luminosities, very strong low-beta focusing of low-emittance beams is required. Taking advantage of the unequal design proton beam emittances in the two transverse planes, an interaction region design based on superconducting quadrupole doublets has been deveoped. Compared with the original design, this scheme provides larger beam apertures at lower magnetic fields, while potentially doubling the luminosity.