El CERN prevé la construcción de un nuevo acelerador con un coste próximo a los 21.000 millones de euros

CERN has unveiled its new plan to build a new accelerator almost four times longer than its current 27-kilometer LHC—currently the world's largest collider—and up to six times more powerful. CERN has presented several preliminary designs for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), which would be the most powerful particle accelerator ever built. Since the existence of the Higgs boson was proven with the LHC in 2012, the accelerator has not allowed the discovery of new particles. According to project leaders, "The need to continually increase the accelerator's energy is the best hope for unraveling some of nature's mysteries at the most fundamental level." The CERN Council, which includes scientists and government delegates from CERN's member countries, will soon make the final decision on the project's funding. GTD has contributed to the last three generations of CERN machines: SPS, LEP, and LHC, responsible for the design, development, installation, and commissioning of the most critical control and command systems for these three machines. These accelerators require the most advanced techniques in the design of real-time systems due to their extremely rapid (close to the speed of light) processes. Our Energy and Science Department also dreams of contributing to the construction of this new “FCC” machine.