The world's newest atom-smasher achieves its 'first turns'
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 - 08:20
in Physics & Chemistry
One of the world's top particle accelerators has reached a milestone, achieving its "first turns"—circulating beams of particles for the first time—and opening a new window into the universe, a view that will give physicists access to a record rate of particle collisions in a tiny volume in space.