Facilities and Experiments
Experiments at the Energy Frontier
Project Status: Proposed
International Linear Collider
A proposed electron-positron collider, the ILC would complement the Large Hadron Collider, a proton-proton collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Consisting of two linear accelerators that face each other, the ILC would hurl electrons and their anti-particles, positrons, toward each other at nearly the speed of light. Superconducting cavities operating at temperatures near absolute zero give the particles more and more energy. Stretching approximately 35 kilometers in length, the beams would collide at 500 billion electron-volts.
