Russia to build its own collider

On September 9th, Russia started building its own particle accelerator in the town of Dubna outside Moscow. It was dubbed the “younger brother” of Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider, created by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

The project, nicknamed NIKA and due to be launched in 2016, may reproduce “Big Bang” conditions that gave birth to our Universe and provide ideas of how the Solar system formed.  

Interested in the project developed in Russia, the CERN signed a cooperation contract with Moscow.