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Title: “I’m quite optimistic that in the next 10-plus years, we are going to break the standard model”.
Authors: Thomson, Mark (AUTHOR)
Source: New Scientist. 6/6/2026, Vol. 270 Issue 3598, p40-43. 4p. 5 Color Photographs.
Subjects: Large Hadron Collider, Higgs bosons, Particle physics, Antimatter, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Particle accelerators, Dark matter, Particles (Nuclear physics)
Abstract: The article focuses on the current status and future prospects of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, as it undergoes a four-year shutdown for major upgrades aimed at increasing collision rates to study rare phenomena, particularly properties of the Higgs boson. Mark Thomson, CERN’s director general, discusses unresolved questions in particle physics, such as the nature of dark matter, the pattern of particle masses, and the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Looking beyond the LHC, CERN is planning the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a proposed £13 billion electron-positron collider designed to serve as a "Higgs factory" and potentially evolve into a larger hadron collider, enabling exploration of physics at energy scales up to 100 times higher than current capabilities. The article also highlights the long-term scientific and economic impacts of such large-scale projects, including technological innovations like the World Wide Web. [Extracted from the article]
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