Thursday, September 11, 2008

World's Largest Particle Accelerator fires up in Geneva... Canadians helping out... (along with 8000 others from 85 other countries)

U of T physicists part of international team
By Kim Luke, posted Wednesday, September 3, 2008

On Sept. 10, an international team of scientists that includes members from U of T's Department of Physics will fire up a machine that they believe will answer some fundamental questions about the structure of the universe.

The highly anticipated $8-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC), located under ground at the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator as well as the most complex science experiment ever developed. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, developed 30 years ago, which still provides the theoretical picture for particle physics.

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