Atom Smasher's New Feat Sets Stage for Proton Crash
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › November 24, 2009
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GENEVA - The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time and causing the first particle collisions in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, organizers said.
The true test of the Large Hadron Collider will come in the first two months of 2010, when scientists plan to start deliberately crashing protons into each other to see what they can discover about the makeup of the universe and its tiniest particles.See the full content of this document
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Atom Smasher's New Feat Sets Stage for Proton Crash
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