Over the weekend, physicists began circulating beams of protons around the 27-kilometre ring of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

大型强子对撞机在位于日内瓦附近欧洲粒子物理实验室的欧洲核子中心。从周末开始，物理学家们在LHC周长为27公里的圆环内，开始质子束流的调束工作。

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The physics machine, called the Large Hadron Collider, is a 17-mile hollow ring underneath Switzerland and France built by CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.

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The discovery eventually came about using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a machine at CERN that sends bunches of protons round a ring 27km in circumference, in opposite directions, at close to the speed of light, so that they collide head on.

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