Cern to explore feasibility of new particle collider

‘Higgs factory’ among priorities drawn from a two-year, bottom-up consultation with European particle physicists

Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, has adopted a science strategy for the next five to seven years, which includes exploring the technical and financial feasibility of building a new circular particle collider in Europe.

Construction of a future collider, which would succeed the current update to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), would probably not begin until 2038 at the earliest, Cern said after the meeting on 19 June.