Tuesday, December 05, 2006

China and High Energy Physics

A good article on the evolution of high energy physics experiments in China. Note somewhere in the article of the very possible and devastating future of high energy physics experiments in the US, where both the Tevatron and SLAC are scheduled to shut down all high energy physics experiments by the end of this decade (SLAC will morph as a light source with the completion of the LCLS).

With LHC about to start running, Japan with KEK/RIKEN continuing to produce results, and China emerging with incresing funding and upgrading their program, the center of high energy physics will certainly shift away from the US, especially if the ILC is built elsewhere.

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