New particle physics plans Megaproject leaves financing details
A report on CERN examines the feasibility to build a heir to a large Hadro colllider
The circular collector of the future (Artist’s impression) The initially would gather electrons and antiparticles.
Hadron colllider (LHC) has aimed at building an accelerator for building an accelerator three times, with a great step forward on March 31 with the release of massive feasibility study of the project. But the possible financing of the new machine will be presented later.
Geneva, Swiss particle laboratory yet to be officially decided to protect the 2011 Collider (FCC) project or other options, but the research will be fed in a review of the long-term strategy in CERN next year.
“This study is the result of a huge amount of work done by FCC international cooperation,” Fabiola said Gianotti, CERN General, in the presentation of journalists. “If approved and executed, FCC humans can become the most extraordinary instrument built in human beings.”
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Large designs
A Three volume viability analysisAbout 1,500 physicists and engineers helped, 15.32 sweetheart ($ 17 billion) would serve a 91-kilometer circular tunnel and build a machine electrons and antiparticles in the mid-2040s. This would enable Higgs Boson and other high-precision studies of other popular particles.
The second stage of the project, as would reuse the tunnel and two protons collides with two beams, as LHC would not come as soon as possible to 2072, and cost 18.8 billion francs. This estimate assumes proton blow 85 tera-electronicvolts (Tev), six times higher than LHC, but it was less than 100 Tev suggested in the beginning. He told journalists from Gianotik to break the conservative, using superconductive magnets, which are now available to drive protons. Continuous research on advanced supercycles can place higher energy within 91 km tunnel, perhaps 120 Tev.
The President of the Constantinos Fountain Council said the study will give the “very solid” to inform the Board to proceed with the project. Antonio Zoccoli, President of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics and representatives from the CERN Council, is in accordance with the team, the team has made “very good work” in technical design and cost estimates.
Vladimir Shilsev, a accelerator of the Illinois University of Dekalb University Accelerator, cost calculations are completely wide, and its collaborators compared research proposals in 2023. The authors of the feasibility study wrote “very nice and strong document”. “Although some technical questions remain unanswered.
The CERN map shows that the circular tunnel of 91 km can be drilled; LHC is lower on the left.
Gianton said Cern could cover 65% of the cost of construction due to the existing budget in the first phase of the project. This would still leave a shortage of more than 5 swiss swanners, which should have additional contributions. Feasibility examination was asked to offer financing scenarios for the project, but this information will be given later, he said.
CERN initially budgeted Chf100 million euros for a feasibility study and a CERN spokesman said Nature The last cost was CHF113 million ($ 128 million).
FCC plan Has his criticism. Some physics believe that the scientific goals in the first phase could be obtained smaller and cheaper linear collisions and places many safers for protocoled protocols in the final phase. “The two Member States and the community of science communities are blocked as a 70-year mortgage,” says John Womersley, a special counselor of the UK in the UK. “It’s hardly a good idea that I want to talk about.”
This article reproduces with permission and has been First posted On April 1, 2025.
