New generations of particle accelerators are now in development, in which beams of particles collide ever more precisely and at ever higher energies.

Professor Stephen Myers, former Director of Accelerators & Technology at CERN and currently Executive Chair of ADAM SA, identifies both the positive and negative lessons which future projects can learn from previous generations of accelerators for one upcoming project: the Future Circular Collider.

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