MOSCOW, September 8 (RIA Novosti) - The...
$120 million from CERN to build the detectors and the accelerator," the researcher said.According to Savrin, Russia also provided around 5% of funding for detectors and some 3% of all spending on the accelerator.
The accelerator complex, 27 kilometers in circumference, sits in a subterranean tunnel about one hundred meters below the Franco-Swiss border, near Geneva, Switzerland.
Once it is up to speed, it is hoped the collider will produce the so-called Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and "missing links" in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.
Ahead of the first test to run a proton beam along the entire length of the collider's ring to be held Wednesday, the LHC Russian coordinator said that unless the Higgs boson is found, no larger device would ever be built.
"I do not think it is realistic to build a larger accelerator
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