$7b proposed for particle study

International scientists yesterday proposed a $7-billion-plus plan to build an international linear collider (ILC) to find unknown particles and conduct studies.

The international scientific community has been working for two decades to build an ILC, but they agreed on a budget only yesterday at an International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) meeting in Beijing. The meeting continues today.

Scientists hope the proposed ILC will be completed by 2016, but it is yet to be decided where it will be based or how the funds would be realized.