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  • n  the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions
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  • New director named for Fermilab
    The newly-appointed director of Fermilab in Batavia wants you to know he’s been rooting for the U.S. particle physics program for a long time. And also for the Blackhawks. “Let’s say I’m a big hockey fan,” Nigel Lockyer, currently the director of TRIUMF, Canada’s flagship particle physics laboratory, said. “And I am certainly rooting for the Blackhawks. Prior to Vancouver falling out of ...
    June 20, 2013 - SouthtownStar
  • Visualized: this is where the Higgs Boson was discovered
    It's not everyday you get to tour CERN , the international particle physics research facility that spans the border of both France and Switzerland. It's even more rare to go down into the sprawling facility's tunnels to see an inactive and under repair Large Hadron Collider -- currently, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. But that's just what we did this past week, as we spent some ...
    June 18, 2013 - Engadget

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