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Accelerators and detectors

Accelerators and detectors

To the LHC and beyond

01 Sep 2004

From 12 signatures on a piece of paper in September 1954, CERN has grown into the biggest particle-physics laboratory in the world. Peter Rodgers examines the challenges facing it now

Robert Aymar
Full circle Next month, figures from the worlds of physics, politics and beyond will gather in Genev

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