CERN - the W and the LHC
Jan 8, 2003
Construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its detectors at the CERN laboratory in Geneva is a challenge of Himalayan proportions. The LHC will collide protons at energies of 14 TeV (14 million million electrons volts) and two detectors - ATLAS and CMS - will survey the debris of these collisions for signs
of the Higgs boson, supersymmetric particles, large extra dimensions and other evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model.
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