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Every week, we collect data about 75 million potentially interesting collisions, says Guido Tonelli, spokesman for CMS, another of the collider's main experiments.
Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson 2011
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Many gaze at the cafeteria's huge plasma screens that display details of the behaviour of the collider's particle beams on which their livelihoods depend.
Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson 2011
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The collider's purpose is to recreate, on a tiny scale, the instant of genesis.
The 'God Particle' and the Origins of the Universe Michio Kaku 2011
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"It is the job of our computers to retain details of the interesting collisions – and only the interesting ones," says Pierluigi Campana, spokesman for the LHCb, one of the collider's main experiments.
Scientists at Cern's Large Hadron Collider near end of the search for the Higgs boson 2011
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The collider's inaugural run, however, was plagued by technical problems that forced CERN technicians to abort the effort twice before successfully steering the powerful proton beams together.
Hadron Collider Gets Off to a Smashing Start Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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"My reaction is a great sigh of relief — and excitement," said senior scientist Ian Hinchliffe at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, who has been working on the collider's particle detectors since 1996.
Hadron Collider Gets Off to a Smashing Start Robert Lee Hotz 2010
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The atmosphere at CERN was tense considering the collider's launch with great fanfare on Sept. 10, 2008.
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The atmosphere at CERN was tense considering the collider's launch with great fanfare on Sept. 10, 2008.
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Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Two beams of protons began 10 days ago to speed at high energy in opposite directions around the collider's 17-mile tunnel.
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Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Two beams of protons began 10 days ago to speed at high energy in opposite directions around the collider's 17-mile tunnel.
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