40 years of research in IHEP
The Institute of High Energy Physics [IHEP] under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, celebrated its 40th birthday on 1 February 2013. More than 700 people, including IHEP staff, representatives from the funding agencies and the fellow research institutions around China, attended the celebration at the IHEP campus.
The IHEP was established in February 1973, based on the First Department of the Institute of Atomic Energy. Over the past forty years, IHEP has matured and become a world-renowned research facility, focusing on particle and astro-particle physics, accelerator physics and technologies, radiation technologies and their applications.
The completion of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider [BEPC II], will allow 2.5GeV full-energy injection and 250mA beam current in the dedicated mode of synchrotron radiation and exciting physics results are expected. The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment has published excellent results on the discovery of non-zero θ13. Furthermore a new reactor neutrino experiment for the mass hierarchy is now in the planning phase.
“The institute experienced difficult times and also significant growth. I am delighted that this great institute is now positioned well in the nation’s innovation system for the next decades with ambitious goals and great programs” said Wang Yifang, the Director of IHEP.
