Reason of limit of beam current in high energy accelerators ?

Subject: Reason of limit of beam current in high energy accelerators ?

Date: Sat May 13 04:48:35 2000
Posted by S. Yuri
Grade level: undergrad School: No school entered.
City: Ashqelon State/Province: No state entered. Country: Israel
Area of science: Physics
ID: 958207715.Ph

Message:


Why are beam currents in, more in particular, electron - positron colliders
and similar installations only reach values of a few hundred mA.
Is it because higher beam current values are simply not neaded for 
research, is it due to limmited values of power availible, limmited
values of outer pressure on manipulating magnets, safety reasons in
case of some containment failure or for some other reason ?
Thank you !

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