Opposite Spins: The LHC Accelerates Higgs Search as the U.S. Shutters Its Tevatron

Monday, February 7, 2011 - 08:06 in Physics & Chemistry

There can be only one top-dog collider in physics, one ring-shaped machine to rule them all. Since late 2009 , when the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, started up outside Geneva and quickly became the most powerful collider in history , particle physicists' eyes have been wandering steadily toward Europe and away from the U.S., where the Tevatron in Illinois had long held sway as the world's best. [More]

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