amanaplanacanal 9 hours ago

What experiments would people like to do, that this new collider would make possible? What theories will be tested?

  • robin_reala 8 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Circular_Collider#Motiv...

    The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study develops options for potential high-energy frontier circular colliders at CERN for the post-LHC era. Among other things, it plans to look for dark matter particles, which account for approximately 25% of the energy in the observable universe. Though no experiment at colliders can probe the full range of dark matter (DM) masses allowed by astrophysical observations, there is a very broad class of models for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in the GeV – tens of TeV mass scale, and which could be in the range of the FCC.

    • sylware 5 hours ago

      Wild guess: they hacked the maths of those models/choose the models in order to fit the energy range of this new collider ? Ask Sabine H., need a BS meter evaluation... :)

      • layer8 4 hours ago

        Sabine H. isn’t exactly low on the BS scale.

        • sigmoid10 3 hours ago

          This. If you want someone with honest insight into high energy theory, you probably shouldn't listen to a person who still pushes out papers that favour MOND over DM by curve-fitting special galaxies. This topic has been studied to death and it simply doesn't work well enough to warrant such strong opinions against DM. That's why her papers mostly go ignored in the community (many of them aren't even physics anymore and edge more into philosophy-babble or even sociology). All they do is make captivating conspiracy youtube videos for the average layperson.

  • SiempreViernes 2 hours ago

    You are in luck, this is exactly the sort of questions that accelerator designers like to answer. You can find the answers on the first 70 pages in volume 1 of the FCC feasibility report: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2928193 just the first

mikebonnell 12 days ago

Would this be a different loop, but connected to LHC or is this a new standalone loop where they would need to find a locale to build it underground?

  • elashri 12 days ago

    This will be a completely new tunnel loop. The LHC tunnel will be used by LHC at the same time the new tunnel loop is being constructed.

    • mikebonnell 12 days ago

      Thanks for clarifying, much appreciated.

UltraSane 5 hours ago

I think the money would be better spent on gravitational wave detectors as they might detect data about the true nature of black holes and help us develop a theory of quantum gravity or at least rule some out.

aeve890 an hour ago

just one more accelerator bro. just one slightly larger accelerator than the one we just got online. we can revolutinize physics with just one more accelerator bro. Just give me 20 billion euros bro and we'll solve physics I promise br