Particle colliders use a huge amount of energy, so physicists are evaluating proposed successors to the Large Hadron Collider to optimise efficiency and reduce their climate impact
An artist’s impression of the proposed Future Circular Collider at CERN
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Physicists planning to build the successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have started looking at the climate impact of a massive particle smasher, with plans to make it as energy efficient as possible.
The LHC discovered the Higgs boson, a particle that gives mass to all the others. Now particle physicists want to study it in more detail with a new kind of collider, known as a Higgs factory, to produce large numbers of the particle by smashing …