Very Large Hadron Collider

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Hadron Colliders: Past, Present, and Future

Intersecting Storage Rings CERN, 19711984
Super Proton Synchrotron CERN, 19811984
ISABELLE BNL, cancelled in 1983
Tevatron Fermilab, 19872009
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider BNL, operational since 2000
Superconducting Super Collider cancelled in 1993
Large Hadron Collider CERN, 20072020s
Very Large Hadron Collider mid-to-late 21st century

In particle physics, Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) is the usual name for a hypothetical future hadron collider with performance significantly beyond the Large Hadron Collider. Given that such a performance increase necessitates a correspondingly large increase in size and cost, it is unlikely that such a machine will be built for a number of decades at least.

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