One hundred trillion electron volts

A 100 km long, ring-shaped particle accelerator generates energies of 100 Tera electron volts (TeV), seven times higher than in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Such energies allow physicists to explore elemental forces of nature and perhaps discover new particles. For example, with this particle accelerator, we want to be able to investigate why the natural forces are different in strength, whether the Higgs field is stable, what is dark matter and how the asymmetry of matter and antimatter arises.