Large Hadron Collider
CERN's massive ring
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, operated by CERN near Geneva.
It accelerates beams of protons or other particles to near light speed and collides them, allowing physicists to study fundamental particles and forces.
The LHC famously confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012.
Often referred to simply as the LHC.
- particle acceleratorDevice speeding subatomic bits
- CERNEuropean nuclear research organization
- ringClosed curve shape
- Higgs bosonElementary particle explaining mass
- antimatterSubstance of antiparticles
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- Big ScienceCERN, LHC, particle accelerator, synchrotron, particle physics
- particle physicsquark, quarks, lepton, leptons, boson
- Particle CollidersLHC, synchrotron
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purpose in physics
Large Hadron Collidernuclear reactor
Controlled fission energy source
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