FUTURE
CIRCULAR COLLIDER - SCI & TECH
News:
CERN pushes plan for
faster, bigger €20 billion particle accelerator
What's
in the news?
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CERN is pushing its plan to build the
Future Circular Collider, a particle accelerator that will dwarf the Large
Hadron Collider.
Key
takeaways:
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CERN, the European Organization for
Nuclear Research, is already home to the largest machine in the world — Large
Hadron Collider (LHC).
Future
Circular Collider (FCC):
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It is a particle accelerator currently under design, intended to
accommodate the next generation of particle colliders.
Aim:
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It aims to design a hadron collider with a
center-of-mass energy of about 100 TeV (trillion electron volts), which is eight times more powerful than the Large
Hadron Collider’s 13 TeV.
Location:
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The FCC is planned to be in a newly
constructed 80–100 km tunnel.
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The circular tunnel will be at a depth of
100 to 400 meters on the France-Switzerland
border.
FCC
Extends LHC Research:
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The FCC aims to build upon the ongoing
research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Significance:
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It will enhance our understanding of
fundamental physics.
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It will foster advancements in fields such
as cryogenics, superconductivity, vacuum tech, and detector instruments.
Go
back to basics:
Large
Hadron Collider:
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It is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle collider.
Built
by:
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European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in
collaboration with over 10,000 scientists.
Location:
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The accelerator lies in a tunnel 100
meters underground at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, on
the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
Aim:
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To explore tiny subatomic particles, which
represent the smallest known units of matter and form the basis of everything.
Achievements:
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In 2012, scientists at CERN announced to
the world the discovery of the Higgs
boson or the ‘God Particle’ during the LHC’s first run. This led to Peter Higgs and his collaborator François
Englert being awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2013.