I searched and found our last discussion on the LHC on this forum was back in 2012. I recall a few days back, there was a discussion about attracting college students in technology to stay in the USA...
LHC - Act II (act 1.5? 1.75?)Not long ago, I saw a documentary about the
LHC. The guy talking was
David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins Univ.). He mentioned another name, (quoting David) :"a person our generation of Physicist look up to...he got his PhD a few years before me...
Nima Arkani-Hammed at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ..." (Same place where Einstein was after he moved to the USA.)
I opened the
current (July 2014) issue of Physics Today, in the article "
Particle physicist brainstorm long-term collider options", I saw that name again:
Article:"... in February,
IHEP (Institute of High Energy Physics) launched the Center for Future High Energy Physics to attract student into the field...
Nima Arkani-Hammed is the director of the new center."
Quoting
Nima in the article: "I became convinced that they are serious, this project is something you can be guaranteed to be world leader in if you build it... It is good for China, and it's good for physics..."
Also
from the article but not direct quotes: They are looking for a successor to the Beijing Electron Positron Collider.
For now, they are focusing on a 50-km ring as lower limit for a higgs factory.
Looks like they are talking
240GeV then convert to proton-proton facility with
center-of-mass collisions up to 100TeV.
Japan is considering hosting the next ILC (Internation Linear Collider). Europe's next particle physics aim is circular design hope/plan to start in 2018. Both team [which I take to be Europe and China] generally concur that at most one 100-km scale collider would go ahead.
You can see the IHEP description here, it uses the same photo as in the Physics Today article.
http://cfhep.ihep.ac.cn/--- end quotes --
While many in this forum thinks Chinese made mostly junk, they are certainly marching full speed forward.
Interesting world we are moving into. Since we need a ride from Putan to get to the International Space Station, I wonder if we are following his advice and NASA is busy shopping for a trampoline. I think USA needs to get off our buds and get back into the basic research game. We made a big mistake in 1993 not moving forward with our collider in Texas. Fermilab folks is/was hoping the ILC will be at least partially at the old Fermilab site(s). Since Fermilab shut down (2011), we are no longer a player in the collider business.
While project budget's "unit of measurement" is tens of billion(s). I think it would benefit mankind if internationally we have multiple. International competition is good. More access to more physicist will also expand the population and drive science forward.
Rick