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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the end-of-the-universe dept.

CERN Council endorses building larger supercollider:

The CERN Council has unanimously endorsed the idea of building a newer, larger circular supercollider, dubbed the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The group made the announcement on June 19. The move is the first step toward building a 100 TeV 100-kilometer circumference collider around Geneva. As part of the vote, the group approved the launch of a technical and financial feasibility study for the new collider.

[...] The approval by the CERN council was not an official go-ahead for the project—it was a go-ahead to look into its feasibility. The next step will involve figuring out where to dig the new tunnel and whether it will be possible to do so in the area near the LHC. If the feasibility study and financial estimates work out as hoped, the next step would be actual approval for the project to move forward. Once that happens, the funds for the project would have to be made available by participating countries in Europe and the U.K.—and this time, perhaps, from other countries such as the U.S., China or Japan. Also, research efforts would have to be developed and launched to design and build the hardware needed for the project.

More at CERN : https://home.cern/science/accelerators/future-circular-collider

At this point the only construction CERN has endorsed is for the creation of a powerpoint and maybe a spreadsheet.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:05PM (#1012023)

    Had a similar idea -- once the tunnels are built, but before any equipment is installed, use the course for high speed record setting. Right now the Bloodhound has to run on specially groomed desert, but it could be a lot nicer to run in a tunnel without any possibility of crosswind or hitting some foreign object (pebble/bird/animal).