

"This is a machine for the world and by the world: not a Chinese one," he added, noting that physicists from around the globe had travelled to China to help with the project. The race to discover the secrets of the universe is always underway. He suggested Qinhuangdao, a northern port city that is the starting point of the Great Wall, as an ideal location for the underground facility, noting its favourable geological conditions and local wineries as important selling points.Ĭhina's rapid economic growth and large population put it in a unique position to invest in basic scientific research, he wrote. Planning for the project began in 2013, shortly after the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, according to slides from a presentation by Wang in Geneva that appeared on his institute's website. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the worlds largest and highest-energy particle collider. The underground particle-smashing ring aims to be at least twice the size of the globes current leading collider - the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) outside Geneva. The first collisions were achieved in 2010 at an energy of 3.5 tera electronvolts (TeV) per beam, about four times the previous world record. The LHC was built by the CERN beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, Izvestia reports.At a time when austerity measures have led many developed nations to reduce research funding for projects without clear applications, China is pouring huge sums money into theoretical as well as practical science, hoping to become a world leader in fields from biology to cosmology. Beijing, China - Chinese scientists are racing to complete plans for a supergiant particle collider that, when built, will dwarf every other accelerator on the planet. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference and as deep as 175 metres (574 ft) beneath the FranceSwitzerland border near Geneva.

When two protons collide inside the machine, they create an energetic explosion that gives rise to new and. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the worlds largest and most powerful particle accelerator, and the largest single machine in the world, built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).Its aim is to allow physicists to test the predictions of different theories of particle physics and high-energy physics, and particularly prove or disprove the existence of the theorized Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetric theories. Will the Worlds Largest Supercollider Spawn a Black Hole (Op-Ed) A simulation of a particle collision inside the Large Hadron Collider, the worlds largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. With a circumference of 50 to 100 km, however, the proposed Chinese accelerator Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) will generate millions of Higgs boson particles, allowing a more precise understanding.ĬEPC will be built in the north of the country near the city of Qinhuangdao that is the starting point of the Great Wall. The facility is expected to generate millions of Higgs bosons, far more than the current capacity of Cerns Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the particle’s existence was demonstrated in 2012.Īs planned, the Chinese project will generate seven times the energy of the LHC, smashing subatomic particles together to generate “Higgses” on an unprecedented scale. The final concept design for the project is on track for completion by the end of 2016, Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics at the China Academy of Sciences, told the China Daily. The facility, designed to smash subatomic particles together at enormous speed, will reportedly be at least twice the size of Europe’s physics lab, the Swiss-based Cern, where the Higgs boson was discovered. China will begin work on the worlds largest supercollider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson.
