Transcript: FIRST BEAM FOR LARGE HADRON COLLIDER

INDSTRY GROUP 99
Regulatory Intelligence Data
09-10-2008
WASHINGTON, DC - 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 accelerator the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) located 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 ...

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