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February 6, 2014
Long particle accelerator 100km could be made in the Lake Geneva area. Scientists around the world will gather next week in Geneva.
Even as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is only at the beginning of its activity , CERN is already working on its successor. Called FCC (Future circular collider), it would consist of a ring of a hundred miles in circumference in Switzerland and France.
Circle dot lines = FCC (Future Circular Collider)
The exploratory study will be launched next week. One hundred researchers from around the world will meet Wednesday to Saturday at the University of Geneva to launch the program provided over five years, as revealed Thursday "Tages-Anzeiger" and the "Bund." (Switzerland daily papers).
In a statement, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said that the LHC was designed in the 1980s to start only 25 years later. It is time to think about his successor in size from 80 to 100 miles in circumference, the FCC could reach an unprecedented energy of 100 TeV (téraélectronvolt) against 14 TeV LHC.
This study is similar to that, launched several years ago, a compact linear collider (CLIC), a linear accelerator 80 km which could also go under Switzerland and France. However, the United States and Japan and China are also potential candidates. The objective of both studies is to determine the feasibility of different machines and assess costs by 2018/2019, when the European strategy in this area will be updated, written CERN.
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Research in particle physics effect becomes increasingly global. Information is exchanged regularly between the Americas, Asia and Europe in a global body, ICFA - International Committee for Future Accelerators. A project such as the FCC can not be achieved by a single continent, told the ats spokesman Arnaud Marsollier CERN.
Artist's interpretation of the actual LHC
Meanwhile, it is planned to operate the LHC for another twenty years. Currently stopped, it should restart in 2015. Thereafter, it should undergo a "upgrade" with new instruments supposed to increase the brightness. The program, called HL-LHC (High Luminosity LHC) is intended to increase the number of collisions a factor of ten by 2024.
"We still know little about the Higgs boson , we are in search of dark matter and supersymmetry ... Only the results of the next LHC will be able to tell us the tracks of research to follow in the future, and the type of accelerator best suited,"says Sergio Bertolucci, director of research and computing at CERN.
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