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Sino-US Joint Committee on High Energy Physics convenes in Beijing

Dec 12, 2006




The 27th Meeting of the Sino-U.S. Joint Committee on High Energy Physics took place recently at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. The meeting ends up as a full success, where cooperative activities over the past year were reviewed and discussions on the development of Sino-US collaboration were carried out.


    The 27th Meeting of the Sino-U.S. Joint Committee on High Energy Physics took place on Nov. 17 and 18 at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing. The U.S. delegation was led by Dr. Robin Staffin, associate director of the Office of Science for High Energy Physics, the U.S. Department of Energy while the Chinese side was headed by Dr. ZHANG Jie, Director-General of the CAS Bureau of Basic Sciences.

    The meeting was a full success, where cooperative activities over the past year were reviewed and discussions on the development of Sino-US collaboration were carried out. There were also extended discussions on the future involvement of US physicists in Chinese high energy physics programs, especially the upgraded Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) and Daya Bay experiments.

    Many suggestions were put forward and agreed upon in order to facilitate the upgrading from the current level of collaboration. They include communicating effectively to U.S. physicists the opportunities for doing frontier physics at BEPCII/BESIII and a series of workshops. It was pointed out that by the end of the decade both the Fermilab Tevatron and the SLAC B-Factory, two US facilities for such studies still operating, will have been retired, and that at that time BESIII will be one of the few sites in the world at which young scientists will be able to participate in accelerator-based high energy physics.

    The items for Sino-U.S. cooperation for the coming year 2006-2007 were introduced and discussed by the Joint Committee. "the Program of Activities for PRC/U.S. Cooperation in High Energy Physics: November, 2006 to November, 2007" was adopted at the meeting. It was decided that the next meeting will be held in the U.S. at Fermilab in the coming year.
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