Large Hadron Collider Smashes Ions At Record Energy

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Boom: a collision in the CMS segment of the LHC. CERN

Not only is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN one of the most ambitious experimental facilities in human history, it is also one of the most successful. Most famously responsible for revealing the existence of the elusive Higgs boson, it seems to regularly discover particles that defy the Standard Model of particle physics through its awesome particle collisions.