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CERN’s ambition to build an accelerator three times as large as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took a major step forward on 31 March, with the release of a massive feasibility study for the project. But scenarios for how to fund the machine will be presented at a later date.
The biggest machine in science: inside the fight to build the next giant particle collider
New CERN chief pledges to forge ahead with $17-billion supercollider
CERN’s $17-billion supercollider in question as top funder criticizes cost
How the revamped Large Hadron Collider will hunt for new physics
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027
US particle physicists want to build a muon collider — Europe should pitch in
