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Large Hadron Collider
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008, in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of universities and laboratories across more than 100 countries, and lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference and as deep as 175 metres beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva.
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YearThe lead states construction ran between 1998 and 2008; the first actual particle collisions were achieved in 2010, after this construction period, and the Higgs boson discovery followed in 2012 -- this pass records the construction-completion year rather than the first-collisions year. SignificanceThe discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC was announced in 2012. 1 Sources
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