With the discovery of the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in July 2012, after more than 50 years of searching, particle physics has finally entered the era of the Higgs, and the door for human beings to understand the unknown part of the Universe is wide open! The Standard Model theory […]
LCC Director Lyn Evans visits IHEP
Prof. Lyn Evans, Director of the Linear Collider Collaboration (LCC), visited the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) on June 9th. Accompanying him were Prof. Akira Yamamoto, the LCC Asian Regional Director, and Prof. Hitoshi Yamamoto, the LCC Associate Director for Physics and Detectors. The LCC delegation held a special symposium and participated in the […]
Strengthening Asian capability in SCRF technology
Sixteen thousand – that’s the number of the superconducting radiofrequency (SCRF) accelerating cavities needed to build the 500-Giga-electronvolt linear collider. The fabrications of these 16 000 cavities will be divided between the three regions of Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This week, encouraging news about SCRF cavity fabrication came form Asia. “This is our first […]
China’s strategy on next-generation high-energy electron-positron colliders discussed
From 12 to 14 June, the 464th Fragrant Hill Science Conference on “The Next-generation High Energy Electron Positron Collider -Current Situation and Future Strategy” was held in the Beijing Fragrant Hill Hotel. Thirty-five front-line scientists from theoretical physics, experimental physics, detectors and accelerators from eleven institutes in China joined the conference. The meeting started with […]
Shin-ichi Kurokawa awarded Chinese top prize
Chinese government announced that Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, Japan, and vice president of Cosylab, was given the International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People’s Republic of China on 18 January 2013. After receiving the Award for International Scientific Cooperation of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Friendship Award of […]
China awards Shin-ichi Kurokawa the 2012 Friendship Award
Shin-ichi Kurokawa, professor emeritus at KEK, vice president of Cosylab and former chair of the ILC Steering Committee, was awarded the Friendship Award of China, the highest honour that the Chinese government confers to foreign experts for their contribution and dedication to China’s economic construction and social development. On 28 September, the awards ceremony for […]
The welcoming season
These days of late summer and early autumn are the best season of the year in Beijing! The sun is shining high over the blue sky, and green leaves that are reflected through the sunshine dance to the tune of the cool winds. As we wave goodbye to the hot August, we are starting to […]
ILC positron target benefits from Chinese technology
A group of Chinese scientists, headed by Xuejun Jia from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently finished the design of the remote handling of the ILC positron target. The target forms part of the positron source and is the place where positrons are produced and then accelerated before they collide […]
China’s roadmap for ILC international cooperation discussed
From 29 to 30 May, the Institute of High Energy Physics held China’s second Linear Collider Workshop (CLCWS12) in Xijiao Hotel, Beijing. Following their first gathering in Beijing in 2010, this time, over thirty front-line scientists from theoretical physics, experimental physics, detectors and accelerators met again to exchange their ideas and have a comprehensive discussion […]
Jialin Xie wins China’s top science award
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 […]