Super Large Hadron Collider
The Super Large Hadron Collider, also known as Super-LHC or sLHC,[1] was the original name for what later became officially called the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider.
The sLHC project (super LHC) aimed for a tenfold increase in luminosity for 14 TeV proton-proton collisions, which was to be achieved through the successive implementation of several new elements and technical improvements from 2013–2018. These included the major replacement of several accelerators in the LHC proton-injector chain, upgrades of the LHC interaction regions and enhancements to the general-purpose experiments ATLAS and CMS. The accelerator part of the sLHC project consisted of a set of sub-projects that fell into three categories: sLHC construction projects, sLHC project preparation studies and an sLHC luminosity upgrade network.
The R&D for the sLHC was funded by several national sources, additional funding made available to CERN from its member states, and funding from the European Commission.[2]
References
- ↑ The Super-LHC is on the starting blocks, 8 July 2008, https://cerncourier.com/a/the-super-lhc-is-on-the-starting-blocks/.
- ↑ Preparatory Phase of the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Grant agreement ID: 212114, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/212114.