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LHC Records 1M Collisions

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AMES, Iowa, Jan. 7, 2009 – Three Iowa State University physicists who took winter trips to the Large Hadron Collider for meetings and experimental work are starting to see real data from the planet’s biggest science experiment – finally. The multibillion-dollar collider made international news on Sept. 10, 2008, when it sent its first beam of protons around 17 miles of underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland (See: Collider Beams Up at CERN). But breakdowns in the machine’s high-current electrical connections forced a complete shutdown for more than a year of repairs and tests (See: LHC...Read full article

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    Published: January 2010
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