The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) achieves energies higher than humans have ever reached in the laboratory. The LHC can accelerate a beam of protons to 7 trillion electron volts (7 TeV). In 2012, CERN scientists announced their probable discovery of the Higgs boson ò?? the final piece in physicistsò?? standard model that describes all ordinary matter and the forces acting on it ò?? among the debris created when they collided two such powerful beams.
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