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News Release 15-051
Partnership for finding particles
US-CERN agreement paves way for new era of scientific discovery
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A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into fundamental particles and the nature of matter and our universe.
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The Large Hadron Collider ring is 27 kilometers in length and buried deep beneath the Geneva, Switzerland, countryside, with ATLAS and CMS detectors located on opposite sides.
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The LHC is the largest, highest energy particle accelerator in the world.
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Since 1997, NSF has contributed $281 million toward the construction and operations of the ATLAS and CMS detectors, but it supports additional experiments as well.
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Fact Sheet, page 2.
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