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Lyndon Evans of CERN will talk about the most complex scientific instrument ever built-the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 10, 2010— In an unclassified Director's Colloquium on March 18, Lyndon Evans of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, will talk about the most complex scientific instrument ever built—the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The talk, entitled "The Large Hadron Collider Adventure,” is at 1:10 p.m. in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Physics Building Auditorium. The colloquium is hosted by Rajan Gupta of Nuclear & Particle Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology and is open to all badge holders. Non-badge holders can attend the event if they are escorted. As viewers of the movie Angels & Demons might remember, LHC is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lying in a tunnel 17 miles in circumference beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. The accelerator uses 6,000 superconducting magnets weighing almost 50,000 tons to collide opposing particle beams of protons or lead nuclei to probe new interactions and elementary particles at the teraelectronvolt (TeV) scale, said Evans, who heads the 2,500-member LHC project.
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