Easter big bang

Published on 31 March 2010

30 March saw the first "high energy" collisions launched by the Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is built in a circular tunnel 27 km in circumference buried around 50 to 175 m. underground. It straddles the Swiss and French borders on the outskirts of Geneva.

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