Langchow plans heavy‐ion facility

APR 01, 1980

The Institute of Modern Physics in Langchow is one of three nuclear‐physics institutes in the People’s Republic of China and the only one I saw during my recent visit (PHYSICS TODAY, March 1980, page 32). The Institute has ambitous plans for a new heavy‐ion facility whose first phase, scheduled to operate in 1985, is expected to produce heavy ions from carbon to xenon—with 50 MeV/nucleon for low Z and 6 MeV/nucleon for high Z. The second phase would produce light ions with 100 MeV/nucleon and all ions up to uranium with 10 MeV/nucleon.

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