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The LHC, has 13 TeV total collision energy, this intends to go to 100TeV in about 20 years. Is that sufficient to find new science? Should they be aiming for a
by kristianp 7y ago
The LHC, has 13 TeV total collision energy, this intends to go to 100TeV in about 20 years. Is that sufficient to find new science? Should they be aiming for a much higher energy? Less than 10 times increase doesn't seem much, for a multi billion dollar project.
- willis936 7y agoIt isn’t a simple matter of making a number bigger. The size and cost goes up exponentially. There are potential new particles that can be teased out of 100 TeV. Some important particles aren’t expected to be seen in colliders smaller than a thousand light years.
- sdwa 7y agoWorth noting that the increase from the Tevatron (2TeV) to LHC (14TeV) was the same as this proposed step from the LHC to the FCC.