LHC Accelerator Research Program

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The U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program (LARP) coordinates research and development in the United States related to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.{{cite web |url=http://www.uslarp.org/ |title=Home |website=uslarp.org}} Among other things, the program has contributed important instrumentation for initial LHC operationhttp://accelconf.web.cern.ch/Accelconf/p07/PAPERS/THXC01.PDF {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Cite web|url=http://spms.kek.jp/pls/ipac2010/JACoW.view_abstract?abs_id=3518|title=Ipac2010 Thpe083}}{{Cite web|url=http://spms.kek.jp/pls/ipac2010/JACoW.view_abstract?abs_id=2884|title=Ipac2010 Mopec021}}http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/Accelconf/p07/PAPERS/FRPMN068.PDF {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}} and is leading the way for the development of superconducting magnets based on Niobium-tin, which are proposed for

future LHC upgrades.{{cite web |url=http://eucard.web.cern.ch/eucard/news/newsletters/issue04/article4.html |title=LARP leads the way for Niobium-tin magnets | Article 4 | Issue 4 | Newsletters | News | EuCARD |accessdate=2010-08-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116174029/http://eucard.web.cern.ch/EuCARD/news/newsletters/issue04/article4.html |archivedate=2010-11-16 }}

LARP was first proposed in 2003 as a collaboration between the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[http://www.uslarp.org/LARP_Proposal.pdf R. Kephart et al, "The U.S. LHC Accelerator Research Program: A Proposal"] The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory joined the program shortly thereafter.[http://www.slidefinder.net/L/LHC_Accelerator_Research/SLAC/1152290|T. Markiewicz, "LHC Accelerator Research at SLAC"]

LARP is funded through the US Department of Energy. The total funding in Fiscal Year 2010 was $12.39M, distributed among the four labs involved.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cfo.doe.gov/budget/10budget/Content/Volumes/Volume4.pdf |title=DOE FY10 Science Budget, p. 245 |access-date=2010-08-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801095115/http://www.cfo.doe.gov/budget/10budget/Content/Volumes/Volume4.pdf |archive-date=2010-08-01 |url-status=dead }}