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 Chinese 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. SUPERCOLLIDER IPAD UPGRADEMore 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 15 million Higgs boson particles per year, compared to the 1.2 million it generated in total between 20.Ī worker rides his bicycle in a tunnel alongside the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Meyrin, near Geneva during maintenance works.Īt a time when austerity measures have led many developed nations to reduce research funding for projects without clear applications, China has been pouring huge sums money into theoretical as well as practical science, hoping to become a world leader in fields from biology to cosmology. '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 collisisons 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. '(The) LHC is hitting its limits of energy level,' Wang told the China Daily, which is published by the government.
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