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Article: U.S. SCIENTISTS COUNT DOWN TO LARGE HADRON COLLIDER STARTUP
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 8, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following press release:
On September 10, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider will attempt for the first time to send a proton beam zooming around the 27-kilometer-long accelerator. The LHC, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists are invited to attend LHC first beam events at CERN and several locations within the United States. Information about the CERN event and accreditation procedures is available at . A list of LHC startup events in the U.S. and contact information for each is available at http://www.uslhc.us/first_beam.
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