More than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at Cern this week to discuss the project, which would be operational from 2025, the organisation said on its website.Ĭern said its upgrade would allow its giant lab – a 27-kilometre (17-mile) ring-shaped tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border – to produce 15m Higgs bosonparticles per year, compared with the 1.2m it generated in total between 20. “The High-Luminosity LHC will produce collisions 10 times more rapidly, increasing our discovery potential and transforming the LHC into a machine for precision studies: the natural next step for the high-energy frontier,” he insisted. “The LHC already delivers proton collisions at the highest energy ever,” Cern chief Rolf Heuer said in a statement. It said it aimed for a tenfold increase by 2025 in the “luminosity” of the LHC, meaning the rate of particle collisions that the machine can generate. “It seems not possible to escalate the energy dramatically at the existing facility.”Ĭern was quick to point to its own plans for a major upgrade to the LHC. “ LHC is hitting its limits of energy level,” Wang told the China Daily, which is published by the government. The facility is expected to generate millions of Higgs bosons, far more than the current capacity of Cern’s 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. How the Higgs boson is born and how it dies: the most precise picture so far
Scientists believe the Higgs – sometimes dubbed the “God particle” – endows mass, making it a fundamental building block of the universe. 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. Photograph: Rex FeaturesĬhina will begin work on the world’s largest supercollider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson, state-run media has reported. China plans to build a supercollider at least twice as big. The Compact Muon Solenoid, a particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland and France.
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