Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with ov
Superconducting quadrupole electromagnets are used to direct the beams to four intersection points, where interactions between accelerated protons take place.
LHC magnet cross sections, left is a dipole magnet segment and right is a quadrupole magnet segment.
The LHC protons originate from the small red hydrogen tank.
CMS detector for LHC
Higgs boson
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The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in pa
Large Hadron Collider
…collisions were achieved in 2010 at an energy of 3.5 tera-electronvolts (TeV) per beam, about four times the previous world record. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC was announced in 2012. Between 2013 and 2015, the LHC was shut down and upgraded; after those upgrades it reached 6.5 TeV per beam (13.0 TeV…
Nobel Prize Laureate Peter Higgs in Stockholm, December 2013
Photograph of light passing through a dispersive prism: the rainbow effect arises because photons are not all affected to the same degree by the dispersive material of the prism.
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Higgs, Peter cropped