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Very Large Hadron Collider
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Particle_physics/YgIuyj2t">Particle physics</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Superconducting_Super_Collider/FouuRoCN">Superconducting Super Collider</a> - planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometres (54.1 mi). Canceled after 22.5 kilometres (14.0 mi) of tunnel had been bored and about US$2 billion spent.</li> <li><a href="/facts/High_Luminosity_Large_Hadron_Collider/PUoaGMm6">High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Future_Circular_Collider/aqD44oJl">Future Circular Collider</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://vlhc.org/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/tddoc/DesignStudyReport/">VLHC Design Materials</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120510182131/http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/tddoc/DesignStudyReport/">Archived</a> 10 May 2012 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Glanz, James (10 July 2001). "Physicists Unite, Sort of, on Next Collider". The New York Times. p. F-1. eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2022. <a href="/wiki/James_Glanz" target="_blank">/wiki/James_Glanz</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Reich, Eugenie Samuel (12 November 2013). "Physicists plan to build a bigger LHC". Nature. 503 (7475): 177. Bibcode:2013Natur.503..177S. doi:10.1038/503177a. eISSN 1476-4687. ISSN 0028-0836. LCCN 12037118. OCLC 01586310. PMID 24226866. The giant machine would dwarf all of its predecessors. It would collide protons at energies around 100 teraelectronvolts (TeV), compared with the planned 14 TeV of the LHC at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva in Switzerland. And it would require a tunnel 80–100 kilometres around, compared with the LHC's 27-km circumference. For the past decade or so, there has been little research money available worldwide to develop the concept. But this summer, at the Snowmass meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota – where hundreds of particle physicists assembled to dream up machines for their field's long-term future – the VLHC concept stood out as a favourite. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038%2F503177a" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038%2F503177a</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>The VLHC Design Study Group (4 June 2001). Design Study for a Staged Very Large Hadron Collider (PDF) (Report). Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. FermiLab-TM-2149. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 May 2022. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Energy. <a href="https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-tm/2000/fermilab-tm-2149.pdf" target="_blank">https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-tm/2000/fermilab-tm-2149.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Glanz, James (10 July 2001). "Physicists Unite, Sort of, on Next Collider". The New York Times. p. F-1. eISSN 1553-8095. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2022. <a href="/wiki/James_Glanz" target="_blank">/wiki/James_Glanz</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>