Hasan Padamsee<br>

Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University<br>

<i>Why Superconductivity Will Propel the Next Generation Accelerators for
Light Sources and Linear Colliders</i><p>


              

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RF superconductivity is a mature science going well beyond technological
know-how and trial-and-error approaches to genuine understanding of the
underlying physics.  Rapid advances in the performance of superconducting
cavities have made it a key technology for a variety of accelerators :
high-energy particle physics, nuclear physics, neutron spallation sources,
storage ring light sources, free-electron lasers and energy recovery
linacs.<p>

This talk will  focus on two areas of forthcoming applications<br>
 (1) free electron lasers and energy recovery linacs for high brightness
light souces<br>
 (2) why the superconducting technoology choice is preferable over the warm
choice for the next linear collider for high energy physics on the TeV scale.

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