Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the term used for the new particle accelerator being built on the fringe of the Swiss metropolis by the Centre Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN). "Large" is certainly no exaggera- tion because the circular particle accelerator measures 27 kilome- tres around and is housed in a tunnel 100 m underground. On this elementary particle 'race- course', 3,500 super conductive magnets are the building blocks that

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