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The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator located near Geneva that spans the border of Switzerland and France 100 meters underground. It will collide beams of subatomic particles called hadrons traveling at near light speed to recreate the conditions after the Big Bang and revolutionize our understanding of physics from the subatomic world to the vastness of the Universe. International teams of physicists will use detectors to analyze the new particles created in the high energy collisions and seek to confirm or challenge the Standard Model of particle physics, advancing human knowledge.

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The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator located near Geneva that spans the border of Switzerland and France 100 meters underground. It will collide beams of subatomic particles called hadrons traveling at near light speed to recreate the conditions after the Big Bang and revolutionize our understanding of physics from the subatomic world to the vastness of the Universe. International teams of physicists will use detectors to analyze the new particles created in the high energy collisions and seek to confirm or challenge the Standard Model of particle physics, advancing human knowledge.

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The Large Hadron Collider

Our understanding of the Universe is about to change...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is 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. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to
the vastness of the Universe.

Two beams of subatomic particles called 'hadrons' – either protons or lead ions – will travel in
opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will
use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-
on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles
created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the
LHC.

There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what's for sure is that a
brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle
physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. For decades, the Standard Model of
particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of
Nature, but it does not tell the whole story. Only experimental data using the higher energies
reached by the LHC can push knowledge forward, challenging those who seek confirmation of
established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm.

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