![]() The new machine would be colliding electrons with their antimatter partners, positrons, by the middle of the century. ![]() Europe’s pre-eminent particle-physics organization will need global help to fund the project, which is expected to cost at least €21 billion (US$24 billion) and would be a follow-up to the lab’s famed Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The decision was unanimously endorsed by the CERN Council, the organization’s governing body, on 19 June, following the plan’s approval by an independent panel in March. Credit: Polar MediaĬERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular supercollider to push the frontier of high-energy physics. ![]() ![]() A proposed 100-kilometre particle collider at CERN would smash together electrons and positrons, and, later, protons (artist’s impression). ![]()
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