CERN presents its future particle accelerator to replace the great Hadron Collider
Scientists and engineers of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have announced the design of a new particles accelerator with which it will be expected to improve the physical research of the leading center. The new device will replace the LHC (Great Hadron Collider) which runs under the western Francohelvetic border.
The plans of the future circular colliding (FCC), installed in A tunnel of almost 91 kilometers under Lake Lemanthey put the final touch to a project that CERN has developed for almost a decade.
The FCC will carry out high precision experiments when it will be released, half -2040, to study “known physics” in detail. So it would enter a second phase – expected by 2070 – in which high energy collisions between protons and heavy ions would have been made.
“This will open the door to the unknown,” he says Giorgio ChiaccaDirector of the research of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Italy. “The history of physics tells us that, when there are more data, human ingenuity is able to extract more information than expected at the beginning,” says Chiarelli, who has not participated in the design of the device.
A collider with 10 times more energy
For about a decade, CERN workers planned The successor of the great Hadron who clashesAn electromagnetic network that accelerates particles An underground tunnel of 27 kilometersMaking them crash from each other at speeds close to light. “In the end, what we want is a collider that generates 10 times more energy of the current“, Explains Arnaud Marsolier, spokesman for Cern.” When you have more energy, you can create heavier particles“.
The project exposes the construction plan, as well as its environmental impact, scientific objectives and costs. Independent experts can examine it before the two dozens of CERN member countries –All Europeans except Israel– decide in 2028 if they continue with this investment of about 14,000 million Swiss francs (almost 15,000 million euros).
Those responsible for CERN AUguan Scientific discoveries This could increase innovation in fields such as CryogeniaSuperconductors and void technologies, which could be for the benefit of humanity. External experts highlight the promise to know better The Higgs BosoneThe elusive particle nicknamed as “the particle of God”, who helped to explain how the subject was formed after the Big Bang.
The works in the Collider particle confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Bosone, a central piece of a puzzle known as the standard model that helps Explains some fundamental forces of the universe.
An exciting opportunity for quantum physics
“The new collision offers an exciting opportunity for the study of particles physics, and in fact for all physicsFor the entire international community, “says Dave Tovack, professor of Physics and Astronomy at the A&M University of Texas. Tovack is not connected to CERN but has worked for years at Tevatron clashed to Fermiilab, in the United States, which was closed in 2011.
Scientists, engineers and CERN partners behind the floors consider a hundred construction scenarios for the new collider, with a length proposed for 91 kilometers at an average depth of 200 meters. The tunnel would be about 5 meters in diameter, according to CERN.
