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Director-General of CERN, Mark Thomson.
| Photo Credit: Vinaya Deshpande
The world needs more mega-science projects, said Director-General of CERN, Mark Thomson, during his visit to Mumbai on Monday (August 31, 2026) for the India premiere of ‘The Peace Particle’, a documentary on CERN. The documentary was premiered at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. During the programme, Mr. Thomson also delivered an address on ‘particle physics: today and tomorrow’.
While answering The Hindu’s questions on the future projects of CERN and the organisation’s interest in India, Mr. Thomson said the Future Circular Collider would push the boundaries of innovation, technology and imagination.
The Future Circular Collider would be a new 91-km ring, which was expected to be operational by 2045-48. Its final stage would collide electrons and positrons. It had not yet been approved, but CERN expected a positive decision by 2028, Mr. Thomson said.
“Also, we are pausing for four years to bring a brighter version of LHC [Large Hadron Collider], which will be more powerful. We will use technologies we have not used before, because they were not there. In the very long term, we are looking at what happens in the future, after the LHC. We call it the Future Circular Collider. This will be an ambitious project, pushing the boundaries of technology, innovation and imagination, and is a project for humanities. Not just for particle physics. It is a scientific, visionary project,” he said.
