Science programme
CCICC members work across the four LHC experiments, detector and accelerator upgrades, distributed computing and future colliders — turning scientific goals into lasting engineering and data capability.
LHC physics
Chinese teams contribute to physics analysis, detector operations and upgrades, triggering and reconstruction across ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
ATLAS is a general-purpose detector at the LHC, co-discoverer of the Higgs boson in 2012. Chinese teams contribute to Higgs physics, searches beyond the Standard Model, top-quark physics and detector upgrades.
Built around a compact superconducting solenoid, CMS has delivered landmark results in Higgs, top-quark and heavy-flavour physics. Chinese groups contribute to detector operations, upgrades and data analysis.
ALICE studies the quark–gluon plasma produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Chinese teams play important roles in heavy-ion analysis, silicon detectors and online data processing.
LHCb uses precision measurements of heavy-flavour decays to probe matter–antimatter asymmetry and rare processes. Chinese groups contribute to operations, online triggering and flavour physics.
Facilities & upgrades
For the High-Luminosity LHC, members contribute to detectors, accelerator components and engineering systems.
Contributions to HL-LHC interaction-region superconducting magnets, accelerator physics, beam diagnostics and future facility studies.
Work on ATLAS ITk, the CMS High-Granularity Calorimeter, ALICE silicon pixels and LHCb upgrades — from R&D to integration and operations.
Mechanical, electronic, cryogenic and control-system work that turns prototypes into reliable long-term instruments.
Sustained involvement in shifts, calibration, quality control and analysis to keep detectors running and producing physics.
Computing & data
The LHC produces enormous volumes of data every year. Members operate the WLCG Beijing Tier-1 centre and contribute to distributed infrastructure, software and algorithms, providing reliable computing and storage for Chinese teams.
Storage, processing and distribution for LHC experiments, serving users across China.
Connected to the global grid, with work on operations, monitoring and data management.
Machine learning for triggering, reconstruction, simulation and analysis.
Open sharing and sustainable maintenance of data, software and tools.
Future colliders
Members are contributing to AGORA, a next-generation detector concept for future lepton colliders such as FCC-ee and CEPC. Built around a high-granularity glass calorimeter, AGORA targets precise energy measurement, particle identification and particle-flow reconstruction, aiming for a concept with no significant performance gap under FCC-ee conditions.
Future Circular Collider
FCC-ee
AGORA
Concept and performance-evaluation stage
FCC-ee is the first-stage electron–positron option of CERN's Future Circular Collider; the detector work is at the concept and performance-evaluation stage.
Join CCICC
Chinese universities and research institutes engaged with CERN are invited to join the consortium and share its platform and mission.