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Commentary: Robert Aymar
CERN’s director-general advocates fundamental science as a long-term investment, laying the foundations for future innovation and prosperity.
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Signal to Background
Breathable foam for fire prevention; swords to plowshares; naming LHC magnets;
more than 4000 LHC-related papers in spires database; Fermilab’s remote operations center; LHC summer schools at Fermilab and SLAC.
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Voices: Dennis Overbye
Author and New York Times deputy science editor Dennis Overbye says experimental clues have yet to produce a "tsunami moment" for revelations beyond the structure of
physics formulated in the 1970s. But physicists are hoping for something bizarre.
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Introducing the Large Hadron Collider
Physicists are excited by the LHC, with access to physics at an energy scale about ten times higher than has been open to exploration so far.
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Into a New World of Physics and Symmetry
CERN theorist John Ellis charts the LHC’s voyage to a New World of discovery,
exploring physics at the TeV scale with the capacity to create new forms of matter.
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Extracting Physics from the LHC
LHC experiments will involve physicists by the thousands, working with the most complex and sophisticated particle detectors ever built.
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The United States and the LHC
The US government has contributed more than a half billion dollars to the construction of the LHC particle collider and two related experiments in Europe.
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The LHC Meets Industry
Building the parts for the Large Hadron Collider has presented many challenges but taught many lessons for both particle physics laboratories and their industry partners.
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Computing Grid is Racing the Clock
With start-up of the accelerator about a year away, will LHC grid computing stand up to the demands of thousands of physicists and a flood of data measured in petabytes?
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Looking for Leptons in All the Right Places
A multinational team is collaborating to transform the way physics is taught, offering kids the chance to close their textbooks and experience modern science first-hand.
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Day in the Life: CERN Cafeteria
The question is: Will the LHC discoveries come during a cup of coffee, or a cup of tea?
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Deconstruction: Large Hadron Collider
As the world’s largest science experiment, the LHC is the subject of many interesting and unusual facts and statistics.
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Essay: Alison Lister
"The compulsion in all of us to search for the truth, to search for the meaning of life and the origin of the world, is the force uniting us on the Compact Muon Solenoid detector experiment."
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Logbook: First Thoughts of the LHC
The minutes of the CERN Scientific Policy Committee meeting held on June 18-19, 1979, are the CERN archives’ first documented mention of the Large Hadron Collider.
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60 Seconds: The Higgs Boson
The Higgs boson, a fundamental particle predicted by theorist Peter Higgs, might be the key to understanding why elementary particles have mass.
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