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Switching on the Large Hadron Collider
The beginning of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dates back to the early 1980s. CERN’s major accelerator, the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP), was still in its study phase. But scientists were already considering using its 27 km tunnel for a proton collider. Hadron colliders were indeed extremely promising. CERN had developed revolutionary techniques with…