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RE: Large Hadron Collider

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The Large Hadron Collider could soon begin a search for new sub-atomic particles, a leading physicist says.
If commissioning work goes well, the LHC could become sensitive enough to probe a hitherto unexplored domain in particle physics by the end of summer.
Among the first candidates for discovery are two boson particles that have been predicted to exist.
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Scientists working on the Big Bang project probing the secrets of the cosmos said on Wednesday their giant particle collider is on course to make unexpected discoveries about the origins and makeup of the universe.
Reporting on the progress of the experiment two months into its initial high-power phase, scientists at the CERN research centre said the USD 10 billion machine was rapidly proving its capacity to advance the frontiers of physics.
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Record-breaking collisions mark start of research at the Large Hadron Collider

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva are celebrating after achieving another world first at 12.06BST today (30 March 2010) - proton collisions at 7 trillion electron volts (TeV).
This significant milestone, the highest energies ever achieved by a man-made particle accelerator (3.5 TeV per proton beam), marks the start of a two-year campaign that could see scientists make new discoveries about the Universe and answer some of the unresolved questions in physics.
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Particle accelerator ready to attempt record-breaking collisions

Energy is building at the Large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, Switzerland, in more ways than one.
As the particle accelerator gears up for the highest-energy particle collisions ever produced, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and around the world are excited to begin looking for evidence of new particles and other unexplained physics phenomena.
On Tuesday, March 30, the LHC will attempt the first collisions at 7 trillion electron volts (TeV) between two proton beams of 3.5 TeV each. These beams, first circulated in the machine on March 19, set a record for the highest energies yet reached in a particle accelerator.
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, could generate astonishing new insights into the Big Bang, the building blocks of the universe, the mysterious properties of dark matter and perhaps even extra dimensions in the universe.
Located at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva, the immense collider, which measures more than 16 miles in circumference, is expected to usher in a new era of particle physics research, enabling scientists to replicate conditions immediately after the Big Bang.
To that end, on March 19, the collider fired beams of protons in both directions, clockwise and counter-clockwise, at a new world-record energy: 3.5 trillion (or tera) electron volts. The LHC will soon collide these proton beams against each other, allowing physicists to analyze the particles produced in the collisions. CERN eventually plans to collide proton beams at a blistering 7 tera-electron-volts in both directions.
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The organisation that operates the Large Hadron Collider has set a date for the start of its science programme.
On Tuesday 30 March, engineers at Cern will make their first attempt to collide beams at an energy of 3.5 trillion electronvolts (TeV) per beam.
The LHC reached this beam energy last week, breaking its own particle beam energy record.
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Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record again

The Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest physics experiment, has broken its own record for particle collisions.
On Friday morning, the machine created two beams of protons, each with an energy of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
The effort breaks the prior record, set by the LHC in December, of just over a trillion electron volts in each beam.
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The Large Hadron Collider will be re-started next week after shutting down late last year for the holiday period.

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First physics from the Large Hadron Collider's CMS detector

Scientists working on the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC have just published results of the first analysis of data from the highest energy particle collisions ever carried out, bringing us another step closer to answering some of the most fundamental questions about our Universe. The results appear in the Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP).
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