At nearly 56.5 miles across, the FCC would be more than three times the LHC’s size while including eight surface laboratory sites overseeing four ongoing experiments. The tunnel itself would be about ...

A CERN map shows where a 91-km circular tunnel might be dug; the smaller LHC is to its left. Gianotti said that CERN could cover 65% of the construction cost for the first stage of the project ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider could eventually be succeeded by an even more ginormous physics experiment, which passed a technical review this week. The even larger project is the Future Circular ...

CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a major step forward on 31 March, with the release of a massive feasibility study for the ...

The HL-LHC will use 12 T superconducting quadrupole magnets made from niobium-tin (Nb 3 Sn) to squeeze the beams to boost the luminosity. CERN engineers think it is possible to increase that to 14 T ...

A Large Ion Collider Experiment, or ALICE, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider does exactly that by smashing together heavy-ion particles and analyzing the results. In late 2024, ALICE discovered ...