China wants to build a particle accelerator twice as large as the LHC

China wants to build a CEPC particle accelerator (Circular Electron Positron Collider) twice as big as the LHC in Switzerland to further study the Higg Boson particle - "God's particle" and possibly even dark matter. , one of the greatest physical mysteries in the 21st century.

China built the CEPC particle accelerator twice as large as the LHC

The CEPC particle accelerator has an expected circumference of 50 to 100km, much larger than the current circumference of the LHC with 27km. With such a large size, it will also generate 7 times more energy than the LHC, supposedly helping scientists create millions of Higg Boson particles in one run. (Currently the LHC is operating at an energy level of 13 TeV, CEPC is claimed to operate at 100 TeV, but there is no reliable source to verify this number).

According to the explanation of Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High-Energy Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences: " Up to now, the LHC has only detected a few hundred Higg boson seeds because it created the Higg particle along with many other particles. However, with CEPC, the collisions of electrons and positrons will be created in an extremely clean environment, producing only Higg particles. On the other hand, the LHC has reached the energy limit and it looks good. cannot increase energy levels significantly with existing infrastructure ".

LHC particle accelerator.

However, at present, China's CEPC only stops at the next level and idea. Wang said scientists have completed the first phase of the concept design and sent a plan to many international scientists in the industry to evaluate. The complete plan is expected to be available by the end of 2016. The first phase of construction will begin between 2020 and 2025, phase 2 is expected to be implemented by 2040.

However, what Wang said about the LHC can only be true now that CERN, the organization responsible for operating the LHC, plans to upgrade the LHC to a new version called High-Luminosity LHC , stronger, brighter. more to create and observe the Higg particle more clearly. The plan is expected to be completed by 2025 and then, the LHC will generate 15 million Higg bosons each year, compared to 1.2 million seeds created in the 2011-2012 period.

1 TeV is a unit of energy measurement in particle physics. 1 TeV is equal to the moving energy range of a flying mosquito. What makes the LHC so horrible is that it can compress energy into a space about a million million times smaller than the size of a mosquito.

TeV stands for tera Electron Volts. It equals 1,000,000,000,000 electron Volt or 10 ^ 12 Volt electrons. 1 eV is a unit of energy, used in measuring atomic and nuclear processes. It is the energy given to an electron by accelerating it by a voltage of 1 Volt.