Future Circular Collider

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is an international design study with emphasis on a hadron collider with a centre-of-mass energy of the order of 100 TeV in a new 80-100 km tunnel as a long-term goal.

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Future Circular Collider innovation and the economics of big science

Recent events in Brussels highlighted the potential of CERN and the FCC to support new innovations and strengthen Europe’s global competitiveness

News
Accelerators
12 December, 2024
Accelerators
News
12 December, 2024

CERN70: Preparing for the future

Gian Giudice is Head of CERN’s Theoretical Physics department

Feature
Physics
12 December, 2024
Physics
Feature
12 December, 2024

Feasibility Study for a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC) continues on the ground

As part of the Feasibility Study for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project, geological field studies are now under way to determine the nature of the subsoil and to better understand the stability of the soil

Announcement
At CERN
01 October, 2024
At CERN
Announcement
01 October, 2024

CERN and the US sign joint statement of intent

Joint Statement of Intent between the US and CERN concerns future planning for large research infrastructures, advanced scientific computing and open science

News
At CERN
24 May, 2024

The importance of dialogue for future projects

It was a real honour, for me and for the Directorate as a whole, to welcome so many members of the public to CERN to discuss the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study. For me, debate on such projects is at the heart of democracy

Opinion
Knowledge sharing
03 May, 2024
Knowledge sharing
Opinion
03 May, 2024

CERN and ENEA plan to develop liquid-metal technologies for particle accelerators

CERN and the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) plan to develop new beam-intercepting devices using liquid-lead technologies to enhance the performance of particle accelerators worldwide

News
Knowledge sharing
30 April, 2024
Knowledge sharing
News
30 April, 2024

You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

News
Accelerators
14 March, 2024

CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider

At its half-way mark, a study investigating the feasibility of a 91-kilometre Future Circular Collider to potentially follow the Large Hadron Collider at CERN shows significant progress

News
Accelerators
13 February, 2024
Accelerators
News
13 February, 2024

Chamonix: building on success, planning for the future

Highlights from this year’s Chamonix workshop, including the crucial role that the injectors play in shaping future research endeavours

Opinion
Accelerators
12 February, 2024
Accelerators
Opinion
12 February, 2024

Registration for FCC Week 2023 is open

The next edition of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) conference will take place in London, from Monday, 5 June to Friday, 9 June 2023

Announcement
Accelerators
21 March, 2023
Accelerators
Announcement
21 March, 2023

Feasibility Study for a possible Future Circular Collider (FCC) gets under way on the ground

The first phase involves a major geographical, geological and environmental data-gathering effort

News
Accelerators
07 March, 2023