CHINA — The Chinese Institute of High Energy Physics is planning to construct a particle accelerator over the next decade. <br /><br />According to information from the project's website, it is expected to be situated near Qinhuangdao City, east of Beijing.<br /><br /> Dubbed the Circular Electron Positron Collider, the project is expected to be five times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. It will be located in a 100-kilometer underground tunnel.<br /><br />The project will be a double ring collider with electron and positrons beams in separate pipes. It will circulate these in opposite directions.<br /><br />If successful, researchers also plan to build a Super Proton-Proton Collider and use it to collide electrons with positrons. <br /><br />Scientists behind the project expect the collider could potentially generate more than a million Higgs particles and others such as W and Z bosons.<br /><br />The researchers have released the design of the collider and plan to build a prototype before the actual collider is built. Construction on the collider is expected to begin in 2022.
