November 17, 2009
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The CERN ATLAS apparatus is a detector in CERN which will focus on physics problems like the search for the Higgs boson, particles that may make up dark matter, and extra dimensions. It has similar objectives as another apparatus in CERN, [...]
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September 5, 2009
The LHC or Large Hadron Collider is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. In its main experiment, two beams of high-energy protons will be brought to a head-on collision. A proton is a type of hadron. Hence, the LHC is more specifically referred to as a hadron accelerator. Each beam is made up of trillions [...]
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