Thursday, November 4, 2010

Large Hadron Collider ‘set to create a mini-Big Bang’

Katia Moskvitch
BBC News
November 3, 2010

Since 2009, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter.

But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead.

The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks.

The LHC is housed in a 27km-long tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border and is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).

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