Very Large Hadron Collider

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Not to be confused with the Large Hadron Collider and its upgrade, the Super Large Hadron Collider.


Hadron Colliders: Past, Present, and Future
Intersecting Storage Rings	CERN, 1971–1984
Super Proton Synchrotron	CERN, 1981–1984
ISABELLE	BNL, cancelled in 1983
Tevatron	Fermilab, 1987–2009
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider	BNL, operational since 2000
Superconducting Super Collider	cancelled in 1993
Large Hadron Collider	CERN, 2008–2020s
Very Large Hadron Collider	mid-to-late 21st century

The Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC) is a name for a hypothetical future hadron collider with performance significantly beyond the Large Hadron Collider.^[1] 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.