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.
What experiments would people like to do, that this new collider would make possible? What theories will be tested?
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.
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?
Completely new tunnel, but it will be connected to LHC, as they will use LHC to pre accelerate the particles.
Almost all accelerators built at CERN are still active and are a chain of pre-accelerator for LHC now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#/media/F...
wow. Amazing map. Just imagine Half Life map with it... :)
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.
Thanks for clarifying, much appreciated.
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