Intersecting Storage Rings CERN, 1971–1984 ISABELLE BNL, cancelled in 1983 Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BNL, 2000–present | Super Proton Synchrotron CERN, 1981–1984 Tevatron Fermilab, 1987–2011 Superconducting Super Collider Cancelled in 1993 | |
The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) is a hypothetical future hadron collider with performance significantly beyond the Large Hadron Collider.
There is no detailed plan or schedule for the VLHC; the name is used only to discuss the technological feasibility of such a collider and ways that it might be designed. The Future Circular Collider concept would qualify as such a collider.
Given that such a performance increase necessitates a correspondingly large increase in size, cost, and power requirements, a significant amount of international collaboration over a period of decades would be required to construct such a collider.
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