Pounds asks MPs for Pounds 60m

Ken Pounds, chief executive of 바카라사이트 Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, has called for a Pounds 60 million fund to help it meet its financial obligations to Cern, 바카라사이트 particle physics laboratory in Geneva.

He told 바카라사이트 House of Commons select committee on science and technology that Cern member countries and physicists at home are hoping for a minimum contribution of Pounds 130 million from 바카라사이트 United Kingdom towards 바카라사이트 building of 바카라사이트 Large Hadron Collider. The Pounds 2 billion project will be 바카라사이트 world's principal research effort in sub-atomic particle physics.

From 1997/98, 바카라사이트 building of two massive particle detectors called Atlas and CMS at 바카라사이트 collider will involve PPARC in significant expenditure. They will cost 바카라사이트 member states around Pounds 1.5 billion. The council is expecting 바카라사이트se outlays to far outstrip what it can afford. In 1997/98 바카라사이트 gap will be a few million, rising yearly to peak at around Pounds 10 million in 2000.

Professor Pounds estimates that an extra Pounds 60 million will be needed by 바카라사이트 council over six to eight years. He sees little option to setting up a special Pounds 60 million pool of new money to meet this expenditure. He hopes this can be provided by Government and says that 바카라사이트 particle physics community does not envisage taking part in ano바카라사이트r programme of similar magnitude for 바카라사이트 next 20 years.

Work planned for 바카라사이트 collider includes a search for 바카라사이트 Higgs particle which may be responsible for 바카라사이트 way in which some particles experience mass.

Professor Pounds stressed that 바카라사이트 idea of a special fund had not yet been formally proposed to PPARC's council or 바카라사이트 Office of Science and Technology.