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A look at the Large Hadron Collider

MAR 23, 2007
Physics Today
Science : Science magazine has devoted a special issue to CERN’s next generation atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider . Adrian Cho reports on the excitement at CERN as the LHC gets closer to completion, how careful budgeting, international cooperation, and stability helped CERN build the LHC, while US physicists failed with the Superconducting Super Collider , and finally, the nightmare of some physicists that the LHC will only see the Higgs Boson particle and nothing else new.
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