The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will for...
way," he said.Speaking at a March 8 press conference, CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer said the LHC could start generating its first scientific breakthroughs into elusive dark matter even while operating at half-capacity.
Heuer told reporters then that by now, 5% of the universe can be "explained by the standard model," but if scientists "can detect and understand dark matter, our knowledge will expand to encompass 30% of the universe, a huge step forward."
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. Over 700 Russian physicists from 12 research institutes have taken part.
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
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