If the machine is built in Geneva then the brand new tunnel will straddle the Switzerland-France border, go under Lake Geneva and kiss the Alps in the east and the Jura mountains in the west. The FCC would require to operate nearly an order of magnitude higher energy than the LHC, but this could be achieved with the assembly of different types of superconducting steering magnets to accelerate particles through the tunnel.
The total length of a collider's arc is measured by the number of the magnets and their strength. In a realistic scenario, if the FCC's magnetic system were to provide a magnetic field of 16 Tesla maximum 20 Tesla — around twice the value of the LHC magnetic field — then we'd require the accelerator complex to have a circumference of km.
When the LHC switches on again next year we might get a peek at the secrets behind supersymmetry , dark matter or other exotic phenomena all collectively known as the New Physics. Those results would build a strong physics case for the FCC. There is tons of theoretical physics work that can only be confirmed or ruled out experimentally at higher energies in other words, with faster acceleration and higher speeds. The LHC currently hosts seven experiments but it is probably too early to say how many experiments the FCC would host.
In addition, there is no official funding number for this project yet. We might have to wait a little while for those figures, but the five-year study will provide cost and energy optimisation.
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We have learned some important things from particle accelerators. Early particle accelerators let us discover new isotopes and new elements of the periodic table. Accelerators are used for testing parts and materials for spacecraft. Nearly all of the standard model of physics, which connects all of the forces we know of except gravity , was built off discoveries from particle colliders. Fewer scientific questions are unanswered, too.
With the discoveries of the LHC, the standard model of particle physics is complete. CERN does not see this as a convincing argument against building a new collider. Historically, it has also sometimes been argued that new physics discoveries will help us develop new technologies. The particles we discover in colliders like these exist only under extremely rare conditions, require extraordinary effort to produce, and are incredibly unstable, existing for only fractions of a second.
This highlights an interesting fact about physics: our approximations of the physical world work astoundingly well, allowing us to figure out most industrial applications of physical principles even when our grasp of them is very bare bones. That said, the case for the Future Circular Collider is that it might teach us new things about the universe, not that it can lead to new techniques because it happens to be a hugely ambitious construction project.
Theoretical physicists are largely in agreement on all of that. What divides them is, in significant part, disagreement over where the money could go instead. It might make more sense to fund a hundred of those experiments than build one collider for 10 times as much money. The LHC represents a pinnacle of experimental physics, but it is 27 kilometres 17 miles in circumference and cost 6. The accelerators currently installed in select hospitals are smaller and cheaper, but they still cost tens of millions of pounds, and require xm of space for installation.
As such, only large regional hospitals can afford the money and the space to host a radiotherapy department. Why exactly do accelerators need to be so big? We set out to find a way to make smaller, cheaper particle accelerators for use in a wider range of hospitals — from the large and regional to the small and provincial.
Our team worked on the premise that to accelerate particles you actually have two options: either give them a strong boost over a short distance, or lots of small nudges over a long one — which is how the LHC works.
Conventional accelerators are a bit like trucks: reliable and docile, but slow. We found that alternative in plasma. The higher the power, the shorter time and distance it takes to accelerate particles, and this leads to smaller, cheaper accelerators. Like a surfer, a beam placed on one of these waves can then be pushed forward by it, constantly accelerating.
Have a burning question about particle physics? Let us know via email or Twitter using the hashtag AskSymmetry. We might answer you in a future video! New accelerator magnets are undergoing a rigorous training program to prepare them for the extreme conditions inside the upgraded Large Hadron Collider. Particle accelerators like the LHC require intricate beam dump systems to safely dispose of high-energy particles after each run. Only a fraction of collision events that look like they produce a Higgs boson actually produce a Higgs boson.
Just over 40 years ago, a new theory about the early universe provided a way to tackle multiple cosmological conundrums at once.
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