Gerard ‘t Hooft, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999, told Al Jazeera that China’s collider project “will bring hundreds, probably thousands of top class scientists with different specialisations, from pure theory to experimental physics and engineering from abroad to China”.Ī theoretical physicist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Professor ‘t Hooft has been a central figure in the development of the Standard Model of Particle Physics, whose theories on the fundamental building blocks and forces of nature have been tested over the last half century at powerful colliders in the US and Europe. This collider will also act as the newest star in the firmament of particle physics, and leading scientists worldwide will rapidly gravitate toward it, says Arkani-Hamed, “for original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics, including the proposal of large extra dimensions, new theories for the Higgs boson, novel realizations of super symmetry theories for dark matter”. With the unveiling of the new collider, he forecasts, “China will without question become the world leader in the field ”.
The Collider complex would also host a multipurpose science-technology campus aimed at conducting secondary and supplemental science experiments. China’s bigger collider will ultimately be able to reach higher energy levels than CERN this might help physicists discover a new range of particles beyond those already charted in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.Īrkani-Hamed says that a perfect circle-shaped city, hosting the globe’s leaders in experimental particle physics, new-technology firms and other future-oriented scholars and designers, could be created inside the massive Chinese collider complex. Physicists aim to explore the origins of matter, energy, and space-time. This process hopes to recreate, inside the accelerator, the hyper-energy conditions that dominated following the Big Bang. The collider complex is initially designed to smash together electrons and their anti-matter counterparts, and later more massive protons, at velocities approaching the speed of light. The new collider research outpost, situated on the Avenue of Eternal Peace in the centre of Beijing, is aiding in the conceptual design that plans to be submitted to China’s top leadership in December, according to Professor Arkani-Hamed, a scholar at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, the one-time home of Albert Einstein. “This machine is by and for the world,” explains Professor Gao Jie, one of the leaders of the project at the Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing.īeijing plans to speedily expand cooperation between China’s foremost physicists and their European and American counterparts with the new collider. With a circumference of 80 kilometres, the Chinese accelerator complex would encircle the entire island of Manhattan.Ī preliminary conceptual design for this leading-edge particle physics laboratory is now being drafted by China’s elite sphere of physicists, joined by a circle of Western counterparts.Ĭalled the Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), China hopes it will shine as a symbol of the country’s rise as a global superpower in terms of pure scientific research. The underground particle-smashing ring aims to be at least twice the size of the globe’s current leading collider – the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) outside Geneva. Beijing, China – Chinese scientists are racing to complete plans for a supergiant particle collider that, when built, will dwarf every other accelerator on the planet.
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