China plans particle collider five times larger than biggest

Chinese scientists plan to build the world’s most powerful electron collider by 2030, a project that will cost 35 billion yuan ($5.05 billion).

Above – A sketch of the future Circular Electron Positron Collider. (Photo/Courtesy of Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of High Energy Physics)

“The collider will have a circumference of 100 kilometers, with a center-mass energy up to 240 giga electron-volts both setting a world record,” Wang said. The collider should produce more Higgs boson particles, the essential, inevitable quarry of modern particle physics, He noted.

The conceptual design for the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) passed international examinations in September, Wang said.

The collider will provide light at a million electron-volt power level, creating the most advanced conditions for research on new materials and nuclear physics.

Scientists from the U.S., Europe and Japan have participated in designing the project, will work on the building process and conduct research with the collider.

In a bid to maximize the project’s service life, scientists are mulling upgrading the electron positron collider around 2040 into a proton collider.

By then, the center-mass energy for the CEPC will have reached about 100 tera electron-volts, seven times as powerful as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded to 14 TeV collision energy in 2018.

Timeline of the Circular Electron Positron Collider

Engineering Design: 2015-2020
Construction: 2021-2027
Data taking: 2028-2035

30 thoughts on “China plans particle collider five times larger than biggest”

  1. But individual electrons are destroyed fairly regularly. Whenever someone makes a positron for example.

    On the other hand, beta emission nuclear decay produces electrons.

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  4. At least it puts the 1 electron theory to the test table : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

    If 1 electron can move forward and backward in time, we would need only 1 to exist.
    And if it got destroyed then the universe ends, as all matter would collapse as matter would no longer be separated by electromagnetic force once our single electron is gone.

  5. So, about 20% bigger than the cancelled Superconducting Supercollider project, and perhaps not using superconducting magnets, but designs derivative from the LHC magnets perhaps then? With a huge tunnel/TBM industry within china, getting the tunnels dug should be vastly cheaper.

  6. You remember me of those little spoiled kids that love to play Monopoli when they are winning and then a nother kid wins and they say, oh I o do not like Monopoli anymore
    Losers
    If you ask me

  7. The text is mentioning “upgrading the collider to protons…”
    Why is that considered an upgrade then ?

  8. Nah, it’s actually pretty useful from a physics perspective, because electrons aren’t composite particles. It simplifies interpreting results. Also, because they have a very high charge to mass ratio, they’re easier to bend into a circle while going fast. So I’d say it’s the right choice.

  9. But individual electrons are destroyed fairly regularly. Whenever someone makes a positron for example.

    On the other hand, beta emission nuclear decay produces electrons.

  10. So, about 20% bigger than the cancelled Superconducting Supercollider project, and perhaps not using superconducting magnets, but designs derivative from the LHC magnets perhaps then? With a huge tunnel/TBM industry within china, getting the tunnels dug should be vastly cheaper.

  11. You remember me of those little spoiled kids that love to play Monopoli when they are winning and then a nother kid wins and they say, oh I o do not like Monopoli anymore
    Losers
    If you ask me

  12. Nah, it’s actually pretty useful from a physics perspective, because electrons aren’t composite particles. It simplifies interpreting results. Also, because they have a very high charge to mass ratio, they’re easier to bend into a circle while going fast. So I’d say it’s the right choice.

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