Energy for everyone RESPECT FOR ENERGY RESOURCES IS FUNDAMENTAL TO SUSTAINABLE GROWTH CERN, the FCC collaboration and its industrial partners are developing superconducting technologies, both to accelerate particles more efficiently and for use in the detectors that record the outcome […]
Developing superconductors SUPERCONDUCTIVE WIRES CAN CONDUCT HIGH ELECTRICAL CURRENTS WITHOUT ANY RESISTANCE. THAT’S WHY THEY ARE SO IMPORTANT FOR CREATING THE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS REQUIRED IN ACCELERATORS. Reaching energies of 100 TeV in a future proton collider will require innovative […]
Accelerating particles at FCCs AT THE HEART OF ANY PARTICLE ACCELERATOR IS A RADIOFREQUENCY SYSTEM This system supplies energy to the beams of charged particles as they pass through the radiofrequency cavities. Increasing the efficiency of these accelerating structures is […]
A circular tunnel for a circular economy The construction of an underground tunnel for a new particle accelerator would produce 10 million cubic metres of excavation materials. Such materials are usually treated as waste. However, they have a market value […]
100km long and 150 to 400 deep </h2 > THE TUNNEL OF THE FUTURE CIRCULAR COLLIDER COULD REACH A DEPTH OF 400 METRES IN SOME PLACES, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO THE HEIGHT OF THE EIFFEL TOWER The excavation of […]
FCC in a nutshell IN THE WORLD’S RACE TO DESIGN THE ACCELERATOR FOR THE POST-LHC ERA, EUROPE, WITH CERN, OCCUPIES A CHOICE POSITION. The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics recommended that Europe, together with its international […]
Writing the future THE FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE FUTURE CIRCULAR COLLIDER (FCC) ENVISAGES THE CREATION OF A NEW RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE, WHICH COULD HOST DIFFERENT PARTICLE ACCELERATORS WITH A RESEARCH PROGRAMME EXTENDING UNTIL THE END OF THE 21st CENTURY. The […]
The benefits of precision for exploration PRECISION MEASUREMENTS ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF MODERN PARTICLE PHYSICS They make it possible to test the predictions of the Standard Model and to search for signs of new physics. The proposed Future Electron-Positron […]
New energy frontiers A RING-SHAPED PARTICLE ACCELERATOR, 100 KILOMETRES IN LENGTH, COULD REACH AN ENERGY OF 100 TEV, SEVEN TIMES MORE THAN THAT PRODUCED BY THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC) With this new energy regime, we could look directly for […]
