Very Large Hadron Collider

Hadron colliders

Intersecting Storage Rings	CERN, 1971–1984
Super Proton Synchrotron	CERN, 1981–1984
ISABELLE	BNL, cancelled in 1983
Tevatron	Fermilab, 1987–2011
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider	BNL, 2000–present
Superconducting Super Collider	Cancelled in 1993
Large Hadron Collider	CERN, 2009–present
Very Large Hadron Collider	Theoretical

Not to be confused with Large Hadron Collider or High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.

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.

See also

• Particle physics
• High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

External links

• vlhc.org, a Fermilab webpage on VLHC research and development
• VLHC Design Materials