With all these projects we will be in a leading position in particle physics." By analyzing all these Higgs particles we can understand its detailed properties. By having this machine we can have a total of one million higgs particles. "This large circuit collider has two phases the first phase (called the Circular Electron Positron Collider) is an electron Positron Collider, and the second phase is a Proton Collider. Wang Yifang is the Director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will also serve as a symbol of the country's rise as a global superpower by putting it at the forefront of scientific research that has implications on everything ranging from advancements in computer science to new drug discovery. (Photo: CCTV)Ĭhinese scientists are racing to complete plans to build a giant particle-smashing collider that would be large enough to encircle the island of Manhattan in New York.Ĭhina's proposed supercollider will be twice the size of the Large Hadron Collider or CERN in Switzerland that helped discover the Higgs Boson or the God Particle in 2012. This time the jolt of excitement should come from the East.The inside of a Large Hadron Collider. Because of its scale and technological demands, the next super-collider to be built may well be the last one.
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And just as an influx of European scientists into America in the mid-20th century invigorated progress, so China’s often insular scientific world would be cracked open by an infusion of foreign physicists. For China itself, a collider would spawn high-tech manufacturing hubs to make the advanced coolants, magnets and computing infrastructure required. We’re going to need a bigger colliderĪs for the question of where a new facility should be, China’s case is stronger. America’s decision to cancel, in 1993, the construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas did not noticeably improve the funding of other fields. Nor is it clear that money saved in one area would find its way to others. The importance of negative results is a riposte to the objection that the money involved, of $20bn or more, would be better spent in other areas of science-hunting exoplanets, say-where the chance of discoveries is higher. By making it so much harder to believe in longstanding theories, this would be the most important null result in the history of physics. Scientists often make the case for the value of negative results. And should it not do so, that too would be valuable information. An even larger and more sensitive collider would have a better chance of finding evidence to support these theories (or, indeed, of turning up something entirely unexpected). The failure to find any of the phenomena predicted by Grand Unified Theories, supersymmetry and the like is not a reason to stop trying, through experiments both small and grand.
The answer to the first question is “yes”. Should a new collider be built at all? And if so, where? Scientists at CERN and in China have developed independent proposals for a particle accelerator of this size, with most of the money coming from local sources and the rest from international funds. The protons colliding together at such a facility would have a combined energy more than seven times higher.
To probe very new territory would require a ring 100km in circumference, about four times that of the LHC. The failure thus far to find the predicted particles raises the question of whether to build a larger collider even than the LHC. As colliders and detectors have failed to turn up the particles these theories conjecture, the models have been tweaked and ever-larger colliders and detectors have been put to work testing them. Many of their ideas for explaining them, such as Grand Unified Theories and supersymmetry, are now themselves several decades old. Physicists have wrestled with these and other problems for years.
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