Company in brief CERN, the world's largest particle physics center, consists of 16,868 members and collaborators, covers over 6,250,000 m2 of land, spans 700 buildings, and conducts various experiments. Founded in 1954, the CERN laboratory sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe's first joint ventures and now has 22 member states. At CERN, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before the beams are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions. The particles are made to collide together at

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