China to start work on supercollider by 2020, staking claim as science leader
by AFP in Beijing from on (#S13R)
The facility is planned to generate millions of Higgs bosons, far more than the current capacity of the Large Hadron Collider at Cern on the Swiss-French border
China will begin work on the world's largest supercollider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson, state-run media has reported.
The facility, designed to smash subatomic particles together at enormous speed, will reportedly be at least twice the size of Europe's physics lab, the Swiss-based Cern, where the Higgs boson was discovered.
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