The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory

The fastest, cheapest particle physics path to a Higgs factory

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is history’s most powerful particle physics machine. Deep underground, this tunnel is part of interior workings of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where protons pass each other at 299,792,455 m/s while circulating in opposite directions: just 3 m/s shy of the speed of light. Particle accelerators like the LHC consist of sections of accelerating cavities, where electric fields are applied to speed up the parti…