![]() How could we justify spending billions of Swiss Francs on a project that would be ‘nice’ for physics?”Īfter many hours of debate, the participants came to a new realization: If they wanted the next accelerator to be worth it, they needed a bigger tunnel. “For me this was a clear ‘no go’ message. “Basically, the prominent physicist said, ‘Doubling the LHC energy would be nice!’” “We asked a very prominent theoretical physicist to give us a talk, which was supposed to motivate and excite us,” CERN scientist Steve Myers wrote in the scientific journal Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.Īccording to the presentation, the maximum energy another 17-mile accelerator could achieve was double the LHC’s design value: from 14 to 30 TeV. The question that so dominated the workshop participants’ time: What next-generation accelerator should they build in CERN’s 17-mile subterranean tunnel once the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider were complete? The answer was not obvious. ![]() “The Russians were swimming in the ocean after midnight. But “we were picked up by a bus early in the morning, and then dropped back at the hotel late at night,” says Frank Zimmermann, an accelerator physicist at CERN. The workshop was held in Malta, a Mediterranean island country and tourist destination south of Italy. Not the international 2010 High-Energy LHC Workshop. General-purpose test beam lines provide beams of electrons, muons and hadrons in a very wide energy range for testing the detectors used in the LHC and in its major upgrade, the High-Luminosity LHC, as well as in future colliders and in neutrino experiments.Most scientific conferences balance serious physics discussions with at least some amount of leisure time. Moreover, CERN offers unique infrastructures for the development of the most sensitive particle detectors in the world, including the four main LHC detectors – ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. The 60-year history of CERN is marked with impressive achievements in the construction and operation of powerful linear and circular accelerators. CERN operates a unique range of particle accelerators that enable research into the fundamental particles and laws of the Universe, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest scientific instrument on Earth. ![]() Sitting astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, it was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 22 member states. ![]() CET and is open to the public.įounded in 1954, CERN is the European laboratory for particle physics. The online kick-off meeting for this second phase will take place on 1 February from 9 a.m. The grant consolidates the recognition of European research infrastructures as innovation drivers. ATTRACT has just received its second-round grant from the European Commission, as a continuation of ATTRACT Phase l. It aims to streamline the pathway of innovation from fundamental research to society”, said Pablo Garcia Tello, coordinator for European-funded projects at CERN.ĭuring Phase l, ATTRACT was granted €17 million to fund 170 breakthrough projects for 12 months, enabling them to implement and develop their research idea before presenting their work at the Final ATTRACT Conference in September 2020. “The ATTRACT project proposes a change in mindset on how new technologies can be funded. The Falling Walls conference featured CERN during its online 2020 event, hosting a debate entitled “Does CERN need another supercollider?” and giving a prize to the European-funded ATTRACT project.įalling Walls, an organisation based in Berlin, is known for its highly produced and well-attended annual conference, which covers “the next walls to fall in science and society”.įalling Walls bestowed a prize on the ATTRACT project. ![]()
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