China is planning on building a huge particle accelerator twice the size and seven times as powerful as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The main goal is to reveal a new physics beyond the Standard Model and the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism along with the clues to understanding dark matter and supersymmetry also.
According to China Daily
reports, this new particle accelerator will be capable of generating millions
of Higgs boson particles. The Standard Model of physics, is an assembly of
theories physicists have derived — and repeatedly improved — to explain the
cosmos and how the smallest building blocks of our universe interact with one
another. Of course there are problems with the Standard Model remain to be
solved. For instance, gravity has not yet been effectively combined into the
framework.
Chinese researchers have
already finished an initial conceptual design of a super-giant particle
collider which will be larger and more powerful than any particle accelerator
on Earth.
Wang Yifang, director of the
Institute of High EnergyPhysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily
in an exclusive interview "We have completed the initial conceptual design
and organized international peer review recently, and the final conceptual
design will be completed by the end of 2016,"
The institute has been
working with major high-energy physics tasks in China, for instance the Beijing
Electron Positron Collider and the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino experiment. Now
researchers are recommending a more ambitious new accelerator with seven times
the energy level of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe.
If everything goes as planned, the construction of the first stage project CEPC will begin between 2020 and 2025, followed by the second stage in 2040.
Yes it’s a long road ahead
but this can completely change our understanding of quantum world.