Cern draws up plans for collider four times the size of Large Hadron

[Judi Lynn]

The Future Circular Collider would smash particles together in a tunnel 100km long

Ian Sample Science editor
@iansample
Tue 15 Jan 2019 13.32 EST

Plans for a machine that would dwarf the Large Hadron Collider have been drawn up by researchers at Cern to take over the baton in the search for new physics in the latter half of the century.

The €20bn (£17.8bn) machine, named the Future Circular Collider, would smash particles together inside a 100km (62 mile) tunnel, making it four times the size of the LHC, which at present is the largest scientific instrument on the planet.

The proposal for the FCC is described in a conceptual design report released on Tuesday by Cern, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva. It comes at a time when physicists around the world are considering where to build the next cutting-edge particle collider, with other machines under discussion in Japan and China.

Fabiola Gianotti, the director general of Cern, called the latest proposal “a remarkable accomplishment”. “It shows the tremendous potential of the FCC to improve our knowledge of fundamental physics and to advance many technologies with a broad impact on society,” she said.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jan/15/cern-draws-up-plans-for-collider-four-times-the-size-of-large-hadron

[walkingman]

1. Such a shame that the SSC in Texas was cancelled after spending over 400 million

it was 54.1 miles and would have cost 10-11B in 1994 dollars. Two things happened - Fiscal austerity was the GOP talking point at the time and Clinton was never a big fan. We could have attracted some of the world's greatest physicists and been the center of world changing scientific breakthrough.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. "Clinton was never a big fan"

Hmmm.

This site keeps telling me that no one with a D by their name can do anything wrong.

At least, I'm not supposed to say so.