At Large Hadron Collider, scientists await highest-energy proton beam collision

The goal is to reproduce conditions that were present less than a billionth of a second after the Big Bang that created the universe, yielding particles including the elusive Higgs boson. Sometime after midnight Monday Los Angeles time -- more than a year and a half later than originally projected -- researchers in Geneva were expected to begin smashing two proton beams together...

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