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CERN plans successor to world's highest-energy particle accelerator

More than 1,000 physicists and engineers helped create the $17 billion proposal, based on at least 100 different scenarios.

CERN, based along the Swiss-French border near Geneva, is making plans to build a more powerful successor to its proton-smashing Large Hadron Collider.
CERN, based along the Swiss-French border near Geneva, is making plans to build a more powerful successor to its proton-smashing Large Hadron Collider. (AN/J. Heilprin)

GENEVA (AN) — CERN's next big move to explain how the universe came to be calls for an even bigger atom smasher: the Future Circular Collider.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, said on late Monday that after several years of intense work it has finished plans for a new particle collider with a 91-kilometer circumference – more than triple the existing 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider – at an average depth of 200 meters below the Swiss-French border.

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