CERN Makes Push for $23 Billion Super-Collider
Castelvecchi & Gibney, Nature
CERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular super-collider to push the frontier of high-energy physics.The decision was unanimously endorsed by the CERN Council on 19 June, following the plan's approval by an independent panel in March. Europe's preeminent particle-physics organization will need global help to fund the project, which is expected to cost at least 21 billion and would be a follow-up to the lab's famed Large Hadron Collider.
CERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular super-collider to push the frontier of high-energy physics.The decision was unanimously endorsed by the CERN Council on 19 June, following the plan's approval by an independent panel in March. Europe's preeminent particle-physics organization will need global help to fund the project, which is expected to cost at least 21 billion and would be a follow-up to the lab's famed Large Hadron Collider.