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CLIC (Compact Linear Collider) is a study for a future electron-positron collider based on an innovating two beam accelerating scheme with two electron drive beams accelerating an electron and positron beam to collide at an interaction point with an energy of 3TeV . This scheme is tested in the CLIC Test Facility CTF.

The luminosity at the interaction point (I.P.) should be better than 10 34 cm 2 s-1. One of the parameters to reach this luminosity is the transverse dimension of the particle beam at the interaction point.

A challenge  is to obtain a transverse beam size at the interaction point of nanometer vertical and 40 nanometer horizontal.


This transverse beam size is obtained by squeezing the beam with about 4000 powerful main quadrupole magnets along the two accelerators and two final focus doublet quadrupoles that focus the beam on the interaction point.
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