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CERN chief upbeat on funding for new particle collider
CERN aims to fund $19.5 billion Future Circular Collider to explore dark matter and energy, with $1 billion pledged by private donors, director-general said.
- Tuesday, Thomson told reporters he voiced confidence about raising funds for the FCC, saying, `'This is technology we just didn't have when we designed the LHC,'`
- In December, private donors pledged $1 billion toward the Future Circular Collider, which is estimated to cost around $19.5 billion, Thomson said.
- Planned HL-LHC upgrades will add more powerful focusing magnets and new optics to increase collision rates, with the LHC set to resume operations in February and run until around 2040.
- The proposed FCC would span 91 kilometres and average 200 metres deep, dwarfing the 27-kilometre LHC, and Thomson told reporters `That project would start operation in the second half of the 2040s`.
- Aiming to probe the universe's missing components, the FCC will try to reveal what makes up the other 95 percent, advancing CERN's mission after the Higgs discovery, 2012.
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CERN chief upbeat on funding for new particle collider
Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.
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