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To achieve an energy of 20TeV, each of the SSC main rings contains approximately 4000 dipole magnets, each 16m long with a field of 7T. This means that over half of the 60mile SSC tunnel is taken up by dipoles. if you were to build a single synchrotron for use in fixed-target collisions of equivalent energy in the center-of-mass (sqrt(s)=40 TeV) and use a similar magnetic design, how long would your tunnel have to be?

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"Similar" magnetic design apparently means the same average top magnetic field along the ring.

If so, the particulars about the magnets do not matter, and the only essential ...

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