Physics
Sep 1 2008, Abhijit

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - world’s most powerful particle accelerator at CERN in Europe. Looking for ‘Higgs Boson’, an elementary partcile, theoretically predicted to be able to answer the key questions regarding the universe, its beginning... LHC...

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