Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Very Large Hadron Collider

Former proposed future hadron collider planned to be located at Fermilab From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads
Remove ads

The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) was a proposed future hadron collider planned to be located at Fermilab. The VLHC was planned to be located in a 233 kilometres (145 mi) ring, using the Tevatron 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 cm2⋅s1 (matching or surpassing the LHC 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 quadrupole magnets 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 cm2⋅s1.[1][2][3]

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.[1]

Remove ads

See also

References

Loading content...
Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads