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A collider beneath two countries

Документальне фото дипольних магнітів Великого адронного колайдера / Documentary photograph of Large Hadron Collider dipole magnets. Credit: alpinethread; CC BY-SA 2.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=3699867

Документальне фото детектора ATLAS у CERN; детектор відрізняється від кільця прискорювача / Documentary photograph of the ATLAS detector at CERN; the detector is distinct from the accelerator ring. Credit: SimonWaldherr; CC BY-SA 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=82406626

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Документальне фото дипольних магнітів Великого адронного колайдера / Documentary photograph of Large Hadron Collider dipole magnets. Credit: alpinethread; CC BY-SA 2.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=3699867

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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is an accelerator ring roughly 27 kilometres long in a tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border near Geneva. Superconducting magnets guide particle beams, while accelerating structures increase their energy. On 4 July 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced a particle with properties consistent with the Higgs boson. The tunnel’s typical depth is about 100 metres, but it is not identical around the entire ring.