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Article: Onwards and upwards; Particle accelerators.(International Linear Collider)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2007
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Plans to build ever-grander particle-smashers collide with reality
NOT content with spending around $10 billion on a shiny new collider at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, physicists are now campaigning for its successor. The International Linear Collider (ILC), as the machine is dubbed, would cost a mere $8.2 billion, according to its backers. Ray Orbach, the head of America's Office of Science, gave a warning last month that, although he supports the project, it is too expensive to build rapidly. The first data to come from such a collider would probably not emerge until the mid- to late-2020s.
The machine would have two parts, ...