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CERN Unveils Design For 62-Mile-Round Atom Smasher More Powerful Than The Large Hadron Collider
A scientific collaboration has released a concept design for the Large Hadron Collider’s successor, an enormous new experiment that would sit inside a hundred-kilometer tunnel.
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The Large Hadron Collider Turns 10: Here’s What’s Next For Particle Physics
September 10 marked the 10th anniversary of when the Large Hadron Collider first powered on. Since it’s already achieved its most well-known goal — to discover the Higgs boson — you might wonder what else is happening at the famous collider.
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The Large Hadron Collider Accelerated ‘Atoms’ With Electrons For The First Time
You can feasibly put anything inside the world’s largest physics experiment, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, so long as it can be vaporised. You could even stick a sandwich in there. But for the first time, scientists have accelerated an atomic nucleus with electrons still attached.
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Could The Large Hadron Collider Collide A Sandwich?
A sandwich edited onto an image of the LHC from 2008. You’d be surprised at how many times someone has asked whether the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could collide mundane things, like a sandwich. The answer is, not quite… but almost! It’s sort of a long story, and the explanation might surprise you.