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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

author: Mondolithic Studios/Novapix

reference: n-cer01-00106

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 28 cm

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, hopefully allowing progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

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CERN - COLLISION - FRANCE - GENEVA - ILLUSTRATION - LABORATORY - LHC - PARTICLE - PARTICLE ACCELERATOR - PARTICLE PHYSICS - PHYSICS - SWITZERLAND -