A long-awaiting report from CERN explores the feasibility of building a supersized successor to the Large Hadron Collider ...
The original design called for high-temperature superconducting magnets, such as so-called ReBCO tapes, and CERN is looking ...
The even larger project is the Future Circular Collider. The 56-mile-long (91-kilometer) project has not yet gotten the green ...
Scientists at the world’s largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could help solve ...
CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a significant step ...
At nearly 56.5 miles across, the FCC would be more than three times the LHC’s size while including eight surface laboratory ...
The proposed 91-kilometer collider could be up and running by the 2040s, but it won't perform high-energy physics until 2070.
A group of physicists appointed by the CERN Council is now conducting a ‘strategy update’, soliciting input from the physics ...
Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue ...
To build them, engineers would need to navigate tricky regional geology, design accelerating cavities, handle the excess heat within the cavities, and develop powerful new magnets to whip the ...
External experts highlight the possibility of gaining deeper insights into the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that sheds light on the formation of matter after the Big Bang. “This set of ...
A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for ...