Large hadron collider

The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator near Geneva, is in operation. It's a massively complex machine.

We investigate possible signatures of black hole events at the LHC in the hypothesis that such objects will not evaporate completely, but leave a stable remnant. For the purpose of de fining a reference scenario, we have employed the publicly available Monte Carlo generator CHARYBDIS2, in which the remnant's behavior is mostly determined by kinematic constraints and conservation of some quantum numbers, such as the baryon charge. Our fi ndings show that electrically neutral remnants are…

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The Large Hadron collider is the most powerful particle collider and the largest machine in the world.

HEAVY METAL: The core of a solenoid magnet at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. the massive research station was built to find the elusive Higgs Boson — an achievement scientists may announ…

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At the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, two armies of physicists struggled to close in on the Higgs boson, the Great White Whale of modern science.

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This map of the CERN facility near the border of France and Switzerland identifies the following experiments being conducted there: CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid); LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty); ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus); SPS (Super Proton Synchrotron); PS (Proton Synchrotron); and ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment). CERN's two main sites—in Prevessin, France, and Merin, Switzerland—are also marked. The large yellow circle identifies the underground path of the Large Hadron…