World-Record Energy Collisions Achieved at Large Hadron Collider
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 19:21
in Physics & Chemistry
On December 8th, thousands of physicists around the world cheered as CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashed together subatomic particles at the highest energies ever reached by a human-made accelerator and the giant ATLAS detector observed the products of the record-breaking reactions whizzing through its sophisticated tracking devices.