The Large Hadron Collider or Large Hadron Collider (LHC), operated by the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), is considered to be the largest particle accelerator created to date. However, this may soon change.
According to the Engadget website, CERN plans to build a new collider, larger than the LHC. This “super-collider” will have a circumference of 100 km. The LHC is only 27 km away.
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The construction of this collider is estimated to be around $ 23 billion and is part of the “European strategy for particle physics. “
CERN presents the future circular collider
The new CERN collider will be called Future Circular Collider (FCC), or future circular collider. It is a hadron super-collider with an energy greater than 100 TeV. He is presented as a “Electron-positron collider, with linear or circular geometry”
CERN plans to make the FCC a “Higgs factory”, the role of which will be to produce very large quantities of Higgs bosons. In a press release, CERN said that a “Such a machine would produce large quantities of Higgs bosons in a very clean environment. It would also make it possible to make spectacular progress in mapping the various interactions of the boson with other particles and to obtain highly accurate measurements. “
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A construction that will be done in two stages
In its strategic roadmap, the CERN Council indicated that the construction of the tunnel which will host the FCC should start in 2038. Laurent Vacavant, deputy scientific director of IN2P3 (National Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics), said that the feasibility had yet to be determined “Technical, but also financial of the project. “
CERN also faces a major problem: that of money. According to the Engadget website, the CERN council plans to call on the member countries of the European Union to finance this project. It could even be forced to collaborate with other countries, such as the United States, China, or even Japan.
If CERN manages to raise the funds necessary for the construction of the FCC, this collider should see the light of day in the second half of 21e century.
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