The UNK proton accelerator is an uncompleted project of 3 TeV large superconductor-based particle accelerator in Protvino, near Moscow, Russia, at the Institute for High Energy Physics. The U-70 synchrotron commissioned in 1967 was supposed to act as an injector for the UNK proton-proton collider ring.
Construction was started in 1983. In eleven years, a 21 kilometer long, 5 meter wide underground tunnel was completed, as well as a 2.7 kilometer long tunnel connecting U-70 with UNK. Electromagnetic, vacuum and surveillance equipment was mounted. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and the economic collapse in Russia the project was defunded and halted, and many scientists involved in the project were later engaged in other similar projects worldwide. The security and maintenance, however, were ensured.
As the similar project has been already commissioned at CERN, the Russian Government has decided to direct the particle physics funding to another accelerator project - NICA.
References
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- International Workshop on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering (1996). Frontiers in strong interactions. Atlantica Séguier Frontières. p. 356. ISBN 978-2-86332-199-7.
- "Статьи | RUSTUNNEL. Тоннели России и подземное пространство". 2008-10-03. Archived from the original on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- Fedotov, Yu. (1996). "UNK Status". In S. Myers (ed.). EPAC96: Fifth European Particle Accelerator Conference : Sitges (Barcelona), 10 to 14 June 1996, Volume 1. CRC Press. pp. 407–409. ISBN 978-0-7503-0387-3. Retrieved 11 October 2010. (Procceding @ JACoW)
- "Russia to Build a Heavy Ion Accelerator in Dubna". Technology Org. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
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