Taking a closer look at LHC

CERN & Future

CERN’s future is the LHC:

Physics: 2010 - 2022 (at least).
Luminosity upgrade.
Development of new high field magnets.

Superconducting Proton Linac (SPL):

Performance upgrade of CERN Accelerator Complex.
Second Generation Ion Beam Facility.
Neutrino physics.

Other challenges:

LHC Computing Grid ( LCG ).
Test of feasibility of the CLIC concept, in order to arrive by 2010 at a firm conclusion on its possible use in an e+e- linear collider above l TeV.
AstroParticle.

Also see: The European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA)

AUTHORS

Xabier Cid Vidal, PhD in experimental Particle Physics for Santiago University (USC). Research Fellow in experimental Particle Physics at CERN from January 2013 to Decembre 2015. Currently, he is in USC Particle Physics Department ("Ramon y Cajal", Spanish Postdoctoral Senior Grants).

Ramon Cid Manzano, secondary school Physics Teacher at IES de SAR (Santiago - Spain), and part-time Lecturer (Profesor Asociado) in Faculty of Education at the University of Santiago (Spain). He has a Degree in Physics and in Chemistry, and is PhD for Santiago University (USC).

CERN

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LHC

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