30 August

Physicists hope and expect that the LHC will give them some answers over the next few years. But they are already honing their sales pitches for a machine to follow the LHC — a ‘Higgs factory’ that would illuminate such a theory with measurements far more precise than the LHC can provide.

In a two-day event commemorating the 50th anniversary of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, about 1,000 employees, former employees and university, government and scientific leaders celebrated the lab’s successes and looked ahead to the next great challenges.

Kilpailevat lineaarikiihdytinehdotukset ovat International Linear Collider (ILC) ja Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). ILC on nimensä mukaisesti kansainvälinen projekti, eikä sen sijoituspaikkaa ole päätetty: se saattaisi tulla Eurooppaan, Yhdysvaltoihin tai Japaniin. (google translation)