https://arstechnica.com/science/2014/02/physicists-start-thinking-beyond-the-lhc-consider-reviving-the-ssc/
>Potentially in response, a team of US-based physicists have come up with an even more audacious plan: don't build the linear collider, resurrect the SSC's now abandoned tunnels, and use them to both host a Higgs factory and as a booster for a truly massive, 270km collider.
Scientist are considered the idea reopening the Texan collider tunnels and expanding it to 100 TeV, with the option to upgrade the magnets and jump to 300 Tev with the same expansion tunnels.
>The big price advantage, however, comes if we ever decide we want to go above 100TeV. If we do, we'd already have all the drilling and liquid helium equipment set; all we'd have to do is replace the magnets with the more expensive ones that CERN was planning on using. At that point, the 270km loop would become a 300TeV collider.
To give you an idea the current energy record for the LHC is 13 Tev. I think that such an expoential jump in energy is worth the investment as we wouldn't be jumping from 13.0 to something like 25
>Potentially in response, a team of US-based physicists have come up with an even more audacious plan: don't build the linear collider, resurrect the SSC's now abandoned tunnels, and use them to both host a Higgs factory and as a booster for a truly massive, 270km collider.
Scientist are considered the idea reopening the Texan collider tunnels and expanding it to 100 TeV, with the option to upgrade the magnets and jump to 300 Tev with the same expansion tunnels.
>The big price advantage, however, comes if we ever decide we want to go above 100TeV. If we do, we'd already have all the drilling and liquid helium equipment set; all we'd have to do is replace the magnets with the more expensive ones that CERN was planning on using. At that point, the 270km loop would become a 300TeV collider.
To give you an idea the current energy record for the LHC is 13 Tev. I think that such an expoential jump in energy is worth the investment as we wouldn't be jumping from 13.0 to something like 25
