CERN scientists release blueprint for the Future Circular Collider
The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study 'known physics' in greater detail in the first ...
A Giant Atom Smasher 656 Feet Below the Earth Could Show Us Physics We’ve Never Seen
CERN is the world leader of the exploration of particle physics, thanks to its 27-kilometer atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider.Now, the Swiss-based research facility has officially completed the ...
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Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics
For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been making plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate particles through a 17-mile underground tunnel and ...
It’s One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost—$17 Billion?
The even larger project is the Future Circular Collider. The 56-mile-long (91-kilometer) project has not yet gotten the green ...
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CERN releases plans for the ‘most extraordinary instrument ever built’
The original design called for high-temperature superconducting magnets, such as so-called ReBCO tapes, and CERN is looking ...
The atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider’s successor will be 56 miles wide
At nearly 56.5 miles across, the FCC would be more than three times the LHC’s size while including eight surface laboratory ...
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Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider?
The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin ...
Nature10d
What CERN does next matters for science and for international cooperation
A group of physicists appointed by the CERN Council is now conducting a ‘strategy update’, soliciting input from the physics ...