The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is still struggling to take its next big step. ...full story at digg
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How the Large Hadron Collider Works » digg The Large Hadron Collider is the largest and most complex scientific instrument ever built and the highest energy particle accelerator in the world. The accelerator is located 100 meters underground and runs 27 kilometers through both French and Swiss... |
| 02 Aug 08 |
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The Large Hadron Collider is Nearly Ready! [PICS] » digg The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27 kilometer (17 mile) long particle accelerator straddling the border of Switzerland and France, is nearly set to begin its first particle beam tests. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is preparing... |
| 11 Sep 08 |
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Large Hadron Collider comes online, world fails to end » digg The Large Hadron Collider, CERN's massive particle accelerator, became fully operational this morning. |
| 30 Nov 09 |
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Large Hadron Collider Sets New World Record » digg CERN announced early Monday that the Large Hadron Collider has become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The LHC pushed protons to 1.18 TeV (trillion electron volts), surpassing the previous record of 0.98 TeV held by Fermilab’s Tevatron. |
| 02 Nov 09 |
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Second chance for Large Hadron Collider to deliver secrets » digg More than $50m worth of damage was done to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most advanced particle accelerator ever built, a few days after its ceremonial opening. Now, one year after the meltdown, scientists watch anxiously as the 'God Machine'... |