Friday, 3rd September, 2010
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LHA sets new 3.5-trillion volt energy record

LHA sets new 3.5-trillion volt energy record

Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher ramped up their huge machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, before running experiments to probe the secrets of the universe.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, said beams of protons circulated at 3.5 trillion electron volts in both directions around the 17-mile tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva.

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