Professor Philip Burrows has been elected Chair of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration Board at the collaboration's annual meeting that took place in Uppsala, Sweden, in September.
The HL-LHC project aims to increase the performance of the LHC in order to increase the potential for discoveries after 2029. The objective is to increase the integrated luminosity by a factor of 10 beyond the LHC’s design value.
The 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 chair the board for an initial period of two years.