The possibility of a future circular collider will be examined during the strategy process, together with the other post-LHC collider option at CERN, the CLIC
linear collider.
The ILC and the PWFA-LC mean International
Linear Collider [23] and Plasma Wake Field Accelerator
Linear Collider [24], respectively.
Dr Evans, director of the
Linear Collider collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, said that persuading more students to choose sciences as A-level subjects would have a major positive impact on Wales' competitiveness - and he called on teachers to find new ways to ignite youngsters' passion for the subject.
Chief among them are the High Luminosity LHC, the Compact
Linear Collider (CLIC), and the Future Circular Collider (FCC) studies.
Just a week ago, a group of researchers backing the International
Linear Collider project picked the Kitakami mountain area in the Tohoku region as the Japanese candidate site.
For future, CERN is developing the technology for the Compact
Linear Collider (CLIC).
Aberdare-born Swansea University physics graduate Dr Lyn Evans, who directed the building of Cern's atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is now project director of its planned big brother - the cataclysmic International
Linear Collider (ILC).
Instead of whirling atoms at each other in giant underground rings, the
linear collider will fire them in straight lines on a 31-mile track.
Caltech physicist Barry Barish is the director of the global design effort for the International
Linear Collider, which is currently in the planning stages.
"An electron-positron collider is the natural successor to the LHC and it turns out the wake fields are much more severe in these
linear collider machines," he added.