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Very Large Hadron Collider

{{Short description|Former proposed future hadron collider planned to be located at Fermilab}}

{{Distinguish|Large Hadron Collider|High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider}}

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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 {{convert|233|km}} 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 cm−2⋅s−1 (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 cm−2⋅s−1.{{r|Physicists Unite}}{{r|Nature_2013}}{{r|VLHC_Report}}

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.{{r|Physicists Unite}}

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References

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{{cite news | title = Physicists Unite, Sort of, on Next Collider | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/10/science/physicists-unite-sort-of-on-next-collider.html | first1 = James | last1 = Glanz | author-link1 = James Glanz |date = 2001-07-10 | work = The New York Times | page = F-1 | access-date = 2022-08-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210422042914/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/10/science/physicists-unite-sort-of-on-next-collider.html | archive-date = 2021-04-22 | url-status = live | url-access = registration | issn = 0362-4331 | eissn = 1553-8095 | oclc = 1645522 | df = dmy-all }}

{{Cite journal |title=Physicists plan to build a bigger LHC |first=Eugenie Samuel |last=Reich |date=2013-11-12 |journal=Nature |volume=503 |issue=7475 |pages=177 | issn = 0028-0836 | eissn = 1476-4687 | lccn = 12037118 | oclc = 01586310 |doi=10.1038/503177a|pmid=24226866 |quote=The giant machine would dwarf all of its predecessors. It would collide protons at energies around 100 teraelectronvolts (TeV), compared with the planned 14 TeV of the LHC at CERN, Europe's particle-physics lab near Geneva in Switzerland. And it would require a tunnel 80–100 kilometres around, compared with the LHC's 27-km circumference. For the past decade or so, there has been little research money available worldwide to develop the concept. But this summer, at the Snowmass meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota – where hundreds of particle physicists assembled to dream up machines for their field's long-term future – the VLHC concept stood out as a favourite.|bibcode = 2013Natur.503..177S |doi-access=free }}

{{Cite report | title=Design Study for a Staged Very Large Hadron Collider |author=The VLHC Design Study Group | date = 2001-06-04 | url = https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-tm/2000/fermilab-tm-2149.pdf | publisher = Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | docket = FermiLab-TM-2149 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220519124406/https://lss.fnal.gov/archive/test-tm/2000/fermilab-tm-2149.pdf | archive-date = 2022-05-19 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all }}{{Department of Energy}}

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://vlhc.org/}}
  • [http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/tddoc/DesignStudyReport/ VLHC Design Materials] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510182131/http://tdserver1.fnal.gov/tddoc/DesignStudyReport/ |date=10 May 2012 }}

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