Inside the BeastThe Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 meters underground.
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Big Experiments, Big Machines The ATLAS detector, which weighs about 7,000 tons, is the instrument used for new discoveries in the collisions of high-energy protons.
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When Protons CollideThe ATLAS detector shows four muons created by the collision of two protons. The byproducts may be signatures of a Higgs event.
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High-Energy Results This data visualization reveals four muons (red lines)—the aftermath of proton smashup.
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The Globe of Science and InnovationCERN's exhibition center, known as The Globe of Science and Innovation, lights up the night.
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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) ExperimentA collision between two protons is visualized in three dimensions in this dynamic computer diagram.