China Plans Particle Colliders That Would Dwarf CERN's LHC

ananyo (2519492) writes Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, working with international collaborators, are planning to build a "Higgs factory" by 2028 — a 52-kilometer underground ring that would smash together electrons and positrons. Collisions of these fundamental particles would allow the Higgs boson to be studied with greater precision than at the much smaller (27 km) Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Physicists say that the proposed US$3-billion machine is within technological grasp and is considered conservative in scope and cost. But China hopes that it would also be a stepping stone to a next-generation collider — a super proton-proton collider — in the same tunnel. The machine would be a big leap for China. The country's biggest current collider is just 240 meters in circumference.

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Super-collider

[ArcadeMan]

So I said, "Super-collider? I just met her!" [audience laughs] And then they built the super collider. - Humorbot 5.0

Re:How many broken parts trying to spin up?

[ArcadeMan]

Either it will never work, or it's going to create a sub-atomic black hole that will eat up half of their installation, or it's going to create a soccer ball-sized black hole that could have destroyed our entire solar system if it weren't for the fact that aliens will stop them 3.14159265359 seconds before the event.

Try the veal

[paiute]

The problem with Chinese subatomic particles is that one half-life later you are ready for more.

Re:VLHC

[Anonymous Coward]

Is not small! Asian collider is good size! Girlfriend say so!

We should act quickly!

[ctrl-alt-canc]

Or the markets will soon be invaded by cheap made-in-China Higgs bosons. Although swiss-made Higgs are known to be by far more precise and accurate, the cheap chinese bosons will send CERN factory into bankrupt, unless some kind of duty is introduced to slow down foreign particles.

Re:How many broken parts trying to spin up?

[budgenator]

Base 2 is real cool, you can count up to 1023 on your fingers; sadly I keep getting thrown out of noisy bars every time I try to order 4 beers in binary.