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Large Hadron Collider ready to restart (Boston Globe Big Picture)
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Tom Davos
Nov 20, 2009, 11:44:12 PM11/20/09
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November 20, 2009
Large Hadron Collider ready to restart (Boston Globe Big Picture)
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects
to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more
than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was
launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical
connection, damaging 53 of the smasher's 9,300 superconducting
magnets. Repairs are now completed, and the plan is to begin injecting
protons into the LHC this weekend, on the path to search for particles
such as predicted-yet-unobserved Higgs Boson. Collected below are some
photographs of the repairs, and of the LHC and some of its experiments
in various stages of construction. (30 photos total)
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