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Does the LHC need a substitute?

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The Large Hadron Collider or LHC will be operational again in early 2015, and its tasks are already scheduled for the next 20 years . However, will the LHC need a replacement by then?

CERN is already investigating the possible or possible descendants of this collider, which in July 2012 would discover the Higgs boson.

The proposals are: a compact linear collider (CLIC) or a future circular collider (FCC). This new generation of circular particle accelerators would reach a circumference of 80 to 100 kilometers.

CLICK : A linear collider based on a new accelerator technology.

FCC : A hadron collider (particles composed of quarks like protons) similar to the LHC but capable of reaching unprecedented energies in the region of 100 TeV (teraelectronvolt).

But the LHC still has a lot to talk about. In fact, CERN is planning a large-scale upgrade with the aim of increasing the luminosity and exploiting the device to its full potential . The project is called HL-LHC ( High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider ) and will increase the number of collisions accumulated in experiments by a factor 10 from 2024.

The LHC, with its next results, will be the one that shows the direction in which its successor should go.

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