CERN prepares its long-term future
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Particle physics takes the long-term view. Originally conceived in the 1980s, the LHC took another 25 years to come into being. This accelerator, which is unlike any other, is just at the start of a programme which is expected to run for another 20 years. Even now, as consolidation work aimed at a restart in 2015 continues, detailed plans are being hatched for a large-scale upgrade to increase luminosity and thereby exploit the LHC to its full potential. The HL (High Luminosity) LHC is CERN's number-one priority and will increase the number of collisions accumulated in the experiments by a factor of ten from 2024 onwards.