The Large Hadron Collider is the largest, most complicated and most expensive machine ever made. Built in the Geneva countryside at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, it hasn’t yet operated at full strength and results from its research haven’t begun to make headlines yet. Nevertheless, physicists want a bigger one, and it could well be located in Geneva too. Plans are well advanced in designing the LHCs successor—the International Linear Collider. Details of the 31km machine are to be presented in Paris to the International Conference on High Energy Physics, which begins today.
WRS’s Pete Forster caught up with professor Brian Foster, European director of the project, and asked him what the ILC would do that the LHC doesn’t.