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A supercollider for Europe
European particle physicists are now considering whether to go ahead and build a powerful new accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Its success will depend on some imaginative new technology
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Dark doubts for cosmology: The so-called cold dark matter theory of cosmology unites particle physics, cosmology and the theory of how galaxies and clusters of galaxies formed into an elegant package. Why does this impressive theory find itself in diffic
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Science: Cosmic ‘wallpaper’ hangs across the Universe – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Missing matter may not be missing – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Genesis recreated – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Particle physics at bay
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Science: Neutrons feel a subtle quantum effect
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Light at end of the tunnel: LEP, the machine of the moment in big physics, will study the Standard Model of particle physics – It will also reveal the parts of fundamental theory that other accelerators cannot reach
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The making of a particle machine: Next week, the world’s largest particle accelerator, LEP, will be ready for action – The last weeks of preparing one of the detectors for LEP reveal what a massive international engineering operation high energy physics
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