In five years China will start the construction of the world’s largest particle collider. According to the announcement it has to generate energies seven times higher than European Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and thus reach about 100 TeV (teraelektronowoltów).
The underground structure is to be more than two times higher than the LHC. This accelerator located on the border between Switzerland and France is in the shape of a circle with a circumference of 27 km.
At the moment we are working on the project equipment, more details will be announced next year. Importantly China predict that the accelerator will be open to researchers from around the world.
This project is part of ongoing in the Chinese science of change – promoted is open to the world and cooperation with other countries, emphasized the importance of basic research.
Chinese accelerator can make the particle physics will do mighty jump – we had never been approached on Earth to such gigantic energy. This is what we get in the LHC allows the production of Higgs boson and enough to experimentally confirm the existence of this particle. However, the energy is there too small to produce enough bosons needed for more research.
Although the LHC is to be gradually improved and by 2025 reach a higher power, but it is still far to the Chinese project. And the more powerful accelerator, the deeper into the structure of matter we can see.
The Chinese project will probably not relish the US, which a few years ago accused, for financial reasons, the project’s own accelerator.
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