Jan 12, 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland - The magnet repair hall at CERN near Geneva. Recent damage to magnets during initial switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider means up to fifty 14m long magnets have to be overhauled after being brought up from the accelerator tunnel below. CERN ( the European Centre for Nuclear Research) developed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to carry out resea

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Jan 12, 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland - The magnet repair hall at CERN near Geneva. Recent damage to magnets during initial switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider means up to fifty 14m long magnets have to be overhauled after being brought up from the accelerator tunnel below. CERN ( the European Centre for Nuclear Research) developed the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to carry out research into high energy particle collisions. Protons accelerated at near light speed in opposite directions round a 27km circular underground tunnel on the French-Swiss border, collide at energies that existed shortly after the 'big bang', creating a spray of more fundamental particles. Expected results are particles such as the Higgs Boson, which explains the origin of mass as well as insights into dark energy and antimatter. (Credit Image: © George Grassie/ZUMA Press)