LHC switch-on: a preview
Until a few months back I had an excited vision of the moment the great LHC "switch on" would take place...
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Until a few months back I had an excited vision of the moment the great LHC "switch on" would take place...
In my last blog entry on the Large Hadron Collider I asked if CERN could make it to Wednesday without any further difficulties...
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After nigh-on three decades, scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva are on the verge of completing the world’s most powerful particle collider. With all of the 1600 superconducting magnets that will be used to guide protons around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) having been cooled to 1.9 K, the machine is finally ready to start circulating […]
Read article: LHC finally gets ready for action
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