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Article: First beam for Large Hadron Collider.
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- September 28, 2008
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An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle acceleratoruthe Large Hadron Collider (LHC)ulocated at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) invested a total $531 million in the construction of the accelerator and its detectors, which scientists believe could help unlock extraordinary discoveries about the nature of the physical universe.
Celebrations across the U.S. and around the world mark the LHC's first circulating beam, an occasion more than 15 years in the ...