It’s One Particle Accelerator, Michael. What Could It Cost—$17 Billion?
The even larger project is the Future Circular Collider. The 56-mile-long (91-kilometer) project has not yet gotten the green ...
Tiny Particle Accelerator Is Millions of Times Smaller Than CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This ...
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What Might The Next Big Particle Accelerator Look Like? We've Seen The First Glimpse
It accelerates protons and ions to a speed never achieved before by humans, allowing them to probe new energy realms in ...
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Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider?
The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin ...
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Oxygen tweaking may be the key to optimizing particle accelerators
Many particle accelerators rely on superconducting radiofrequency components made of niobium. Nuclear physicists found that ...
No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN
Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday that a detailed analysis revealed no technical obstacles to building the world's ...
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The atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider’s successor will be 56 miles wide
At nearly 56.5 miles across, the FCC would be more than three times the LHC’s size while including eight surface laboratory ...
Particle accelerator: CERN presents feasibility study for LHC successor
The LHC is still in operation. But CERN is already planning its successor, which will have a circumference of over 90 ...
Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which ...
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Educational accelerator open to the public
What better way to communicate accelerator physics to the public than using a functioning particle accelerator?