CERN is currently working on the first phase of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project. CERN said at the launch it would “carry out an initial assessment on the ground to verify available geological and seismic data, as well as fauna and flora for interview purposes”.
The FCC was conceived as the successor to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful accelerator, launched in September 2008. Until the opening of the LHC, talk of the apocalypse dominated the scenario.
Here’s what you need to know about the future circular collider:
(1.) According to CERN, the purpose of the device is to “push the limits of the energy and intensity of the particle collector, with the goal of achieving a collision energy of 100 volts per electron, in search of new physics.”
(2.) Among the various options considered by the International Particle Physics Society for the replacement of the Large Hadron Collider, which will be completed in 2040. The LHC is CERN’s flagship facility.
(3.) On the French-Swiss border, the FCC will build a circular tunnel that will go from 100 to 400 meters deep. The tunnel will cover a distance of 91 km between the two countries.
(4.) At the same time, he will build eight scientific fields. Seven of them will be in France and one in Geneva (Switzerland).
(5.) Depending on the results of the technical and economic feasibility study, in 2028 CERN’s 23 member countries (22 Europe + Israel) will make a final decision on the project. If approved, the Future Circular Collider is expected to accelerate electrons and positrons by 2060, and then by 2090, hadrons.
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