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Large Hadron Collider: The Discovery Machine
in Scientific American by Graham P. Collins, February 2008
The Large Hadron Collider is a cylinder with a 27-kilometer circumference, into which two beams of protons travel within a millionth of one percent of the speed of light. Scientists will study the resulting particle collisions, which could top 600 million a second. The hope is to find both the mysterious Higgs particle (thought to be what gives mass to other particles) and the particle which we know only as the dark matter that makes up most of the universe. While Collins' article is as clear as it could be, it still requires extensive background knowledge to fully comprehend.
Posted 10:25, 24 January 2008
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