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Large Hadron Collider: The Discovery Machine
URL: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-discovery-machine-hadron-collider

Description:
This in-depth feature from January 2008 explores the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which "will accelerate bunches of protons to the highest energies ever generated by a machine, colliding them head-on 30 million times a second, with each collision spewing out thousands of particles at nearly the speed of light." Features an article about the project, graphics depicting the LHC, fast facts and curiosities, and related articles about particle physics and particle accelerators. From Scientific American.

LII Topics: Nuclear Physics, Physics

Author:
Collins , Graham P.

Publisher:
Scientific American Inc.

LII Database Information:
Record 26853 created by Jennifer English on 09/08/2008
Last modification on 09/10/2008
Published: 09/11/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26853

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