Cern is not just the Large Hadron Collider – or “Big Bang” machine
The instruments used at Cern to do physics experiments are aimed at solving riddles about the universe and about matter. But sometimes the very sensitive detectors developed at the site near Geneva, result in useful byproducts, like new diagnostic and surgical equipment. (Raffaella Rossello, swissinfo.ch - Cern video productions)
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Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) say the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) appears to have produced a small amount of the matter that existed in the first moments of the universe. They said colliding particles seem to be creating “hot dense matter” that would have existed microseconds after the Big Bang and…
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On Wednesday international scientists from Cern research centre near Geneva successfully fired a beam of proton particles around the 27km-long underground tunnel housing the world’s biggest particle accelerator. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel. If…
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