Mining Future

Date Time Mining Future Photo from the currently ongoing work for the HL-LHC upgrade of the LHC; building a new/future tunnel with a circumference of 100 km would generate about 9 million cubic metres of excavated materials, mainly molasse. (Image: CERN) A key recommendation of last year’s update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics is that Europe, in collaboration with the worldwide community, should undertake a feasibility study for a next-generation hadron collider at the highest achievable energy, with an electron-positron collider as a possible first stage. As a result, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study is committed to investigating the technical and financial viability of such a facility at CERN.