Jialin Xie, professor at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was awarded the State Top Scientific and Technological Award and a bonus of five million yuan by President Jintao Hu at a ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 14 […]
Advancing superconducting accelerating technology
A report from the TESLA Technology Collaboration meeting and the ILC-GDE SCRF meeting held in China last month
TESLA, which stands for TeV-Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator, is the name of a former planned collider using an accelerating technology closely linked with the ILC. To some extent, TESLA can be said to be the predecessor of ILC technology. As time has gone by, TESLA technology has expanded its meaning to include superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) […]
The pursuit of polarised positrons
The sixth POSIPOL workshop held at IHEP, Beijing
The POSIPOL 2011 workshop was held from 28 to 30 August at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. It was the sixth in the POSIPOL series of workshops coupling the polarised positron source R&D efforts of next-generation electron-positron colliders such as the ILC and the Compact Linear Collider […]
ILC positron collaboration meeting held in Beijing
On 27 August, one day prior to the POSIPOL 2011 workshop in Beijing – an annual workshop dedicated to polarised positron source R&D for ILC and CLIC – ILC polarised positron source experts gathered to attend an ILC positron collaboration meeting held at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to discuss […]
A laboratory without walls
Fourth workshop of the France-China Particle Physics Laboratory held in Jinan
The 4th Workshop of the France-China Particle Physics Laboratory (FCPPL) took place in Shandong University, Jinan, China from 7 to 9 April 2011. The main purpose of these workshops is to present, review and discuss the various ongoing and future activities performed by Chinese and French scientists within the FCPPL framework. More than 100 scientists, […]
A niobium company visit in Ningxia, China
With the aim of preparing for ILC superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) cavity and cryomodule industrialisation, and to seek cost-effective mass-production scenarios for the SCRF cavity and cryomodule systems, the ILC project managers set up a plan for industrial communication. They decided to pay visits to twelve companies between early February and late April 2011 to discuss […]
New start, new hope
Third IHEP-KEK 1.3-GHz SRF technology collaboration meeting
Each end-of-year people are used to gathering together to look back on a year of progress and to making plans for the coming year. Experts are no exception, whether from China or Japan. From 7 to 8 December 2010, the IHEP-KEK 1.3-gigahertz superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) technology collaboration meeting was held at the Institute of High […]
First gathering in Beijing
China's domestic linear collider workshop held
Just a week after the International Workshop on Linear Colliders (IWLC2010) held in Geneva, China’s Linear Collider Workshop (CLCW2010) organised by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) was held in Beijing Laffitte Hotel from 30 to 31 October. For the first time, China’s linear collider community gathered together to exchange ideas and have a […]
Progress on China’s collaboration with XFEL and FAIR
The attendees listen to a report during the annual meeting of "Basic Research on the FEL and FAIR" project. Image: Min Zhang The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (European XFEL) and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) are two important international cooperative science facilities mainly led by Germany. China has participated in the […]
Important progress on IHEP superconducting cavity
A 1.3-Gigahertz low-loss type large-grain nine-cell superconducting cavity called IHEP-01 produced at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, China, achieved an accelerating gradient of 20 Megavolts per metre in its first vertical test at KEK on 1 July. This may not be the design gradient yet, but it marks an important progress […]