Going full circle Future Circular Collider: What is it?

摘要

The world’s largest experiment gave us incredible insights into the formation of our universe.Now the big sister of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will benefit the wider scientific and engineering community and stimulate a new generation of innovation.In January 2019,CERN launched its conceptual design report for the Future Circular Collider(FCC)-a potential successor to the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).It aims to have seven times the power and be four times the size of the LHC and would reach unprecedented energy levels.Within the physics world the LHC has been a great success.In reaching energy levels approaching those at the start of the universe,it set out to confirm what we knew about the structure of hadron particles,such as protons,and then smashed them together to discover new particles.