Two teams of physicists compete to explain matter—and win a Nobel Prize.
by Gabrielle Walker
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To find out more about the Large Hadron Collider check out this article Beyond the Higgs..
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The “large” in Large Hadron Collider is something of an understatement. “Enormous” is closer: The collider’s underground tunnel carves a circle 17 miles in circumference, traversing the border between Switzerland and France. At four locations it passes through caverns crammed with detectors the size of buildings. In a deliberately constructed rivalry, two of these detectors—along with their armies of scientists, engineers, and technicians—will vie with each other to discover the obscure but wildly important particle known as the Higgs boson.
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