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CERN Supercollider. By Alex Girardi. What is the Supercollider?. It’s large, and also called the Large Hadron Collider. World’s Largest and highest energy particle accelarator . What is CERN?. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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CERN Supercollider By Alex Girardi
What is the Supercollider? • It’s large, and also called the Large Hadron Collider. • World’s Largest and highest energy particle accelarator.
What is CERN? • CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. • Collaboration of thousands of scientists and engineers.
What has the LHC Done? • 10 Sept 2008 successfully fires protons around the entire tunnel. • 19 Sept 2008 Magnetic Quench occurs causing a loss of 6 tonnes of liquid helium.
Other Supercolliers • Isabelle • Tevatron • Relativistic Heavy Ion collider • Super large hadron collider (proposed 2019) • And a very large hadron collider (theorectical)