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Large Hadron Collider

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noun

  1.  LHC.  a particle accelerator at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva containing a circular underground tunnel 27km (16.8 miles) in circumference, around which two streams of hadrons are sent in opposite directions before being brought together in a high-energy collision

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But now, Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

From BBC

To chase them down, the Large Hadron Collider sends particles whizzing around an underground ring at phenomenal speeds until they smash into each other.

From Barron's

The particle's existence was confirmed in 2012 by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland.

From BBC

However, in more than 10 years of observations there has been no evidence to support this idea, even using the Large Hadron Collider as some had hoped.

From Salon

“This class of ideas has become less popular because when we turned on the Large Hadron Collider, we did not see evidence of supersymmetry,” Slatyer told Salon in a video call.

From Salon