Philip Burrows elected chair of HL-LHC Collaboration Board

At the 2022 meeting of the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) Collaboration, in September in Uppsala, Sweden, Professor Philip Burrows was elected Collaboration Board Chair.

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 2 years.