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The Large Hadron Collider
URL: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/LHC-en.html

Description:
Background for the public about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), "a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles -- the fundamental building blocks of all things." Read about reasons for LHC, how it works, experiments, safety, facts and figures, and more. From CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

LII Topics: Nuclear Physics, Physics

Publisher:
CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research

LII Database Information:
Record 26852 created by Jennifer English on 09/08/2008
Last modification on 09/08/2008
Published: 09/11/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/26852

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