mollwollfumble said:
The LHC is down for refurbishment so not much news there.
A future plan called the high luminosity LHC looks interesting.
https://home.cern/science/accelerators/high-luminosity-lhc
The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) project aims to crank up the performance of the LHC in order to increase the potential for discoveries after 2025. The objective is to increase luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value.
the High-Luminosity LHC will produce at least 15 million Higgs bosons per year.
The civil-engineering work started in April 2018.
The civil-engineering work centres on Points 1 (ATLAS) and 5 (CMS), where most of the equipment required to increase the luminosity for the two experiments will be installed. At each of the two sites, the underground facilities to be built consist of a shaft around 80 metres deep, a service hall that will house cryogenic and other equipment, a 300 metre long tunnel for electrical equipment (power converters) and four 50 metre service tunnels that will connect the new structures to the accelerator tunnel. These four tunnels will house specific systems, such as radiofrequency equipment and the superconducting and cryogenic lines. Around 100 000 m3 of earth will be excavated to create the underground structures, which are due to be completed in 2021.
Nice video about topics – such as high temperature superconductors carrying 100,000 amps – at https://home.cern/science/accelerators/high-luminosity-lhc