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CERN Council Endorses Building Larger Supercollider

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @04:15PM (#1012027)

    While not mentioned, this new proposal is a bit larger than the last one the USA tried--
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider [wikipedia.org]

    The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) (also nicknamed the desertron) was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas.

    Its planned ring circumference was 87.1 kilometers (54.1 mi) with an energy of 20 TeV per proton and was set to be the world's largest and most energetic. The project's director was Roy Schwitters, a physicist at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Louis Ianniello served as its first Project Director for 15 months. After 22.5 km (14 mi) of tunnel were bored and nearly two billion dollars were spent, the project was cancelled in 1993 due to budget problems.

    (article continues).

    The Wiki article includes a map, which shows that the plan was actually for an oval with two shorter straight sections connecting the two 180 deg turns.

    Maybe it would make more sense to join forces and resurrect the one in Texas? At one point they must have put in place agreements with all the land holders for underground rights, in USA that would be one of the first big hurdles to jump.

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