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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is by far the biggest particle collider in the world–it even has “large” in the name. However, the now famous scientific instrument buried near Geneva, Switzerland may soon be eclipsed by an even bigger collider currently being planned in China. The plan from scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing calls for a ring-shaped collider nearly twice the size of the LHC.
The LHC is 27 kilometers (about 16.7 miles) in circumference and capable of generating about 14 TeV of energy in collisions. That proved to be sufficient to coax the Higgs boson out of hiding, but the proposed Chinese machine would be 52 kilometers (around 32.3 miles) long and capable of collisions in the 70 TeV range. That’s the eventual goal, though. The initial version of the collider would be designed for electron-positron collisions and just 240 GeV (an order of magnitude less than the LHC). The instrument would then be upgraded to do proton-proton collisions at full power.
Colliders like the LHC and the proposed Chinese project are essentially giant electromagnetic rings that send particles (like protons) rocketing around until they collide with each other in the detector. Scientists then observe the mishmash of particles that pour out to see what we can glean of the smallest and most elusive particles.
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The LHC is 27 kilometers (about 16.7 miles) in circumference and capable of generating about 14 TeV of energy in collisions. That proved to be sufficient to coax the Higgs boson out of hiding, but the proposed Chinese machine would be 52 kilometers (around 32.3 miles) long and capable of collisions in the 70 TeV range. That’s the eventual goal, though. The initial version of the collider would be designed for electron-positron collisions and just 240 GeV (an order of magnitude less than the LHC). The instrument would then be upgraded to do proton-proton collisions at full power.
Colliders like the LHC and the proposed Chinese project are essentially giant electromagnetic rings that send particles (like protons) rocketing around until they collide with each other in the detector. Scientists then observe the mishmash of particles that pour out to see what we can glean of the smallest and most elusive particles.
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