The supercollider was formally discussed in the 1984 National Reference Designs Study, which examined the technical and economic feasibility of a machine with the design energy of 20 TeV per proton.
Early in 1983, HEPAP ( See more

After $2 billion had been spent ($400 million by the host state of Texas, the rest by the Department of Energy ), the House of Representatives rejected funding on October 19, 1993, … See more

After the project was cancelled, the main site was deeded to Ellis County, Texas, and the county tried numerous times to sell the property. The property was sold in August 2006 to an … See more

• DESY
• Fermilab
• Large Hadron Collider
• UNK proton accelerator – a similar competing Soviet project discontinued at about the same time in Russia See more

During the design and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project. In 1987, Congress … See more

The SSC's planned collision energy of 2 x 20 = 40 TeV was roughly three times that of the 2 x 6.5 = 13 TeV (as of June 2015) of its European counterpart, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. However, the planned luminosity was only one tenth of the design … See more

"Supercollider," a 1993 song by the Boston-based alternative band Tribe, describes the point of view of a scientist hired to help build the (then-uncancelled) project.
John G. Cramer's 1997 hard science fiction novel Einstein's Bridge centers around a fictional … See more