Professor Philip Burrows has been re-elected Chair of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board at the collaboration's annual meeting that took place in Genoa in October. He was elected Chair in September 2022.
The HL-LHC project aims to increase the performance of the Large Hadron Collider in order to increase the potential for discoveries after 2030. The objective is to increase the data sample by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value.
The c. £1 billion project is led by CERN with the support of an international collaboration of 44 institutions in 20 countries – the vast majority in various European countries including Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom – and including a number of CERN’s non-Member States such as the United States, Japan and Canada. Professor Burrows will serve as Chair for a further two years.