Russia has made significant contributions...
the world as winning a record number of medals at the Olympics.The $5.6 billion international LHC project has involved more than 2,000 physicists from hundreds of universities and laboratories in 34 countries since 1984.
Russia joined the project in 1996, when Moscow signed an agreement with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) stipulating an annual investment of $6 million over 10 years.
The collider, located 100 meters under the French-Swiss border with a circumference of 27 km (17 miles), enables scientists to shoot subatomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, channeled by powerful fields produced by superconducting magnets.
In order to fire beams of protons round the vast underground circular device, the entire ring must be cooled by liquid helium to minus 271 degrees C, just two degrees above absolute zero.
By colliding particles in front of immensely powerful detectors, scientists hope
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