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CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com)
If built, the Future Circular Collider will be 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider, and could discover new types of particles. From a report: The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson particle at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is widely considered to be one of the most important scientific breakthroughs in history. It validated a half-century of research about the basic building blocks of matter, and remains the crowning achievement of modern particle physics. Now, CERN wants to follow up on the LHC's smashing success with a super-sized structure called the Future Circular Collider (FCC).
This next-generation particle accelerator would boast 10 times the observational power of the LHC and would stretch across 100 kilometers (62 miles), encircling the Swiss city of Geneva and much of the surrounding area. CERN published its first conceptual design report for the FCC on Tuesday. The four-volume roadmap was developed over five years by 1,300 contributors based at 150 universities, according to a statement.
This next-generation particle accelerator would boast 10 times the observational power of the LHC and would stretch across 100 kilometers (62 miles), encircling the Swiss city of Geneva and much of the surrounding area. CERN published its first conceptual design report for the FCC on Tuesday. The four-volume roadmap was developed over five years by 1,300 contributors based at 150 universities, according to a statement.
According to the article, the current cost estimate is 17 G$.
For comparison: That is 30% more than a Ford-class aircraft carrier, 40% more than the Gotthard Base Tunnel.
I'd assume that it will be paid mostly by CERN member states. Top contributors to CERN's 2019 budget:
See https://fap-dep.web.cern.ch/rp... for details.
Wouldn't work - wrong kind of particle accelerator.
There are two kinds of particle accelerators, and you use one or the other depending on the science you want to do.
The LHC is basically a particle accelerator - you take two particles (consisting of multiple quarks) and slam them into each other. This generates lots of collisions, and the quarks smashing into each other generate all sorts of new particles. As you can see, an accelerator like the LHC is used to perform "new science" - to discover what can only be done by colliding lots of random quarks and particles together to see what new forms of particles you get. This works because the particles you collide aren't uniform (a neutron or proton is not a homogeneous thing - and they can have three or four quarks). Thus when they collide, you're smashing things with varying energy and composition, to form new things of varying composition. Thus when trying to discover the undiscovered, like the Higgs boson, you need this kind of collider - it generates the random variations and energies you need to discover.
The other type of collider uses electrons, which are very precise. You use these colliders to perform in-depth science - if you're probing stuff, the fact that you can control the electron beam precisely is why it's good - the energy distribution is highly controlled so you can probe the properties of whatever you're exploring. If you find a way to reliably make Higgs, for example. you can use this kind of collider to probe its properties. And since they are only accelerating really light electrons, they can be much smaller to get them to higher energy levels. Accelerators like the LHC have to accelerate heavy particles by comparison so it takes a lot more energy and time.
The National Ignition facility is also dangerous as it means they will likely lose containment
Uh.....they ran it at full power starting in 2012. We're still here, and there were no containment failures nor underground ignition.
Ya might wanna cut back on the physics theories from video games.