• First CSNS Open Run in 2019 Completed
    First CSNS Open Run in 2019 Completed
    Jul 22, 2019

    The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) successfully completed its open run of user experiments on June 26, a series that began last September. Machine studies on the accelerator were completed on July 6 and summer...

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  • CSNS Beam Power Reaches 80 kW
    CSNS Beam Power Reaches 80 kW
    Sep 30, 2019

    The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) reached a beam power of 80 kW on Sept. 27, 2019, thus taking a further step towards its final design goal of 100 kW. Before this achievement, CSNS had been shut down for a t...

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  • Wang Yifang wins 2019 Future Science Prize
    Wang Yifang wins 2019 Future Science Prize
    Sep 12, 2019

    China's Future Science Prize, one of the country's most prestigious non-governmental science awards, announced on Saturday that Prof. Wang Yifang and Prof. Kam-Biu Luk were co-awarded the prize in physical sciences as...

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  • Insight-HXMT Tests Pulsar Navigation
    Insight-HXMT Tests Pulsar Navigation
    Aug 23, 2019

    Satellite orbit has been determined autonomously within 10 km (3σ) by observing an X-ray pulsar with the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT) satellite, according to a study by Chinese scientists just publi...

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  • Astrophysicists Link Brightening of Pulsar Wind Nebula to Pulsar Spin-down Rate Transition
    Astrophysicists Link Brightening of Pulsar Wind Nebula to Pulsar Spin-down Rate Transition
    Aug 26, 2019

    Astrophysicists have discovered that the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) surrounding the famous pulsar B0540-69 brightened gradually after the pulsar experienced a sudden spin-down rate transition (SRT). This discovery, made...

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  • IHEP Signs Cooperative Agreement with Serbian Research Institutions
    IHEP Signs Cooperative Agreement with Serbian Research Institutions
    Jul 17, 2019

    Prof. Wang Yifang, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), visited Serbia from July 11-12 to hold talks and sign an MOU between IHEP and three Serbian research institutions. The Agreement of Cooperat...

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  • JUNO Construction Enters Key Phase
    JUNO Construction Enters Key Phase
    Jul 15, 2019

    The successor to the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO), currently under construction, is a multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine neutrino mass hierarch...

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  • 2018 Chinese Physics C Achieves Highest Ever Impact Factor
    2018 Chinese Physics C Achieves Highest Ever Impact Factor
    Jul 09, 2019

    Chinese Physics C (CPC) is celebrating its highest ever impact factor, at 5.861, based on its ranking in 2018 Journal Citation Reports published by Clarivate Analytics on June 20. In impact, the journal is now ranked ...

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  • Highest Energy Gamma Rays Discovered by Tibet ASgamma Experiment
    Highest Energy Gamma Rays Discovered by Tibet ASgamma Experiment
    Jul 03, 2019

    The Tibet ASgamma experiment, a China-Japan joint research project, has discovered the highest energy cosmic gamma rays ever observed from an astrophysical source – in this case, the “Crab Nebula.” The experiment d...

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  • High Energy Photon Source Starts Construction in Beijing
    High Energy Photon Source Starts Construction in Beijing
    Jun 29, 2019

    China' s High Energy Photon Source (HEPS), the country' s first high-energy synchrotron radiation light source and soon one of the world' s brightest fourth-generation synchrotron radiation facilities, began construct...

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