A committee of physicists has concluded that one of the world's only particle colliders should be closed early if an expected budget squeeze isn't alleviated. Today, the US Nuclear Science Advisory Committee led by physicist Robert Tribble presented a report to the Department of Energy, prioritizing the nuclear physics projects that should be funded. As was widely expected, the hammer fell on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the only American particle smasher and one of two heavy ion colliders worldwide — the other is CERN's Large Hadron Collider, currently on a multi-year hiatus. Tevatron, the only other hadron (composite particle) collider besides the LHC and RHIC, shut down in 2011.
Despite endorsing the proposal,...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929864/physicists-recommend-shutting-down-rhic-collider-in-budget-crunch
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