Very Large Hadron Collider

The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) was a proposed future <a href="/facts/Hadron/C0sd1zty">hadron</a> <a href="/facts/Collider/j6wTDohV">collider</a> planned to be located at <a href="/facts/Fermilab/8yyTx3oj">Fermilab</a>. The VLHC was planned to be located in a 233 kilometres (145 mi) ring, using the <a href="/facts/Tevatron/dHkngs84">Tevatron</a> as an injector. The VLHC would run in two stages, initially the Stage-1 VLHC would have a collision energy of 40 TeV, and a luminosity of at least 1⋅1034 cm−2⋅s−1 (matching or surpassing the <a href="/facts/LHC/XWJCFSqT">LHC</a> design luminosity, however the LHC has now surpassed this).
After running at Stage-1 for a period of time the VLHC was planned to run at Stage-2, with the <a href="/facts/Quadrupole_magnet/x2VmpLL8">quadrupole magnets</a> used for bending the beam being replaced by magnets that can reach higher peak magnetic fields, allowing a collision energy of up to 175 TeV and other improvements, including raising the luminosity to at least 2⋅1034 cm−2⋅s−1.
Given that such a performance increase necessitates a correspondingly large increase in size, cost, and power requirements, a significant amount of international collaboration over a period of decades would be required to construct such a collider.

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Very Large Hadron Collider