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LHAASO Discovers a Dozen PeVatrons and Photons Exceeding 1 PeV and Launches Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Astronomy Era
May 15, 2021China's Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO)—one of the country's key national science and technology infrastructure facilities—has found a dozen ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic accelerators within the...
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Low-frequency (<1 GHz) Elliptical Cavities Break China Record
May 08, 2021The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) at IHEP made an important breakthrough recently. Two of its 650 MHz 1-cell cavities (650S4 and 650S7) reached 2.7E10@35MV/m and 3.6E10@32MV/m, respectively, in a vertical...
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Researchers Create Novel Boron-10 Nano-drug for Precise Boron Neutron Capture Therapy in Mouse Model of Glioma in Situ
Apr 28, 2021Prof. XING Gengmei of the Institute of High Energy Physics, along with her research group, recently made important progress in the development of nano-drugs for the treatment of malignant glioma. The study, entitled ...
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Evidence for PeVatrons, the Milky Way's Most Powerful Particle Accelerators
Apr 02, 2021The Tibet ASγ experiment, a China-Japan joint research project on cosmic-ray observation, has discovered ultra-high-energy diffuse gamma rays from the Milky Way galaxy. The highest energy detected is estimated to be ...
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Observation of the Zcs(3985) Strange Four-quark Meson: The first hidden-charm tetraquark state with non-zero strangeness
Mar 12, 2021In the March 12, 2021 issue of Physical Review Letters, the BESIII collaboration reports the discovery of an exotic multiquark structure, dubbed Zcs(3985), that is produced in the process of e+e-→K+(Ds-D*0+Ds*-D0) at...
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Discovery of a Potential Cosmic-ray Accelerator in the Galaxy: The Tibet ASγ experiment opens a window on the origin of PeV cosmic rays
Mar 01, 2021The Tibet ASgamma experiment, a Sino-Japanese joint research project, has discovered gamma rays beyond 100 TeV coming from G106.3+2.7, a supernova remnant (SNR) 2600 light-years from Earth (see Fig.1). These gamma ray...
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Insight-HXMT Gives Insight into Origin of Fast Radio Bursts
Feb 18, 2021The latest observations from Insight-HXMT were published online in Nature Astronomy on Feb. 18. Insight-HXMT has discovered the very first X-ray burst associated with a fast radio burst (FRB) and has identified that i...
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JUNO Holds 17th Collaboration Meeting Online
Feb 10, 2021The 17th International Collaboration Meeting of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) was held via video conference from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5. About 220 scientists from dozens of institutions in Asia, Euro...
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First Scientific Paper from LHAASO Published in Chinese Physics C
Feb 08, 2021The first scientific paper from the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project, entitled “Observation of the Crab Nebula with LHAASO-KM2A – a Performance Study,” was officially published in Chinese...
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Large-size Iron-based Superconducting Coil Passes Performance Test at 10 Tesla
Feb 05, 2021The high field superconducting magnet team of the Institute of High Energy Physics and the advanced superconductor team of the Institute of Electrical Engineering published their latest cooperative achievements on Feb...
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