Recent analyses of the long term future of particles physics in Asia, Europe, and the U.S.A. have led to the consensus that the next major facility to be built to unravel the secrets of the micro‐cosmos is an electron‐positron linear collider in the energy range of 500 to 1000 GeV. This collider should be constructed in an as timely fashion as possible to overlap with the Large Hadron Collider, under construction at CERN. Here, the scientific potential and the technological aspects of the TESLA projects, a superconducting collider with an integrated X‐ray laser laboratory, are summarised.

Topics
Cosmogony, Electron positron interactions, Large Hadron Collider, Particle physics, Linear collider, Lasers
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2002
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