Eur Phys J C (2004) 33: s1044-s1046
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjcd/s2003-03-1503-1

PS15 Accelerator R and D

The Detector and interaction region for a photon collider at TESLA

DESY Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany

Received: 3 October 2003
Accepted: 20 October 2003
Published online: 18 November 2003

Abstract

TESLA is designed as an electron-positron linear collider (LC) based on super-conducting technology. A second interaction region is forseen to be incorporated in the design allowing its possible operation as a photon collider. In this paper I describe the basic design of the γ γ interaction region taking into account the beam-beam and laser related issuses and review some aspects of other accelerator components such as the feedback system and the beam dump which are critical to the operation of TESLA as a photon collider.