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A Wednesday. Will the world survive it?
September 8, 2008
These steps are followed by the powering together of all the circuits of each sector, and then of the eight independent sectors in unison in order to operate as a single machine.
Once stable circulating beams have been established, they will be brought into collision, and the final step will be to commission the LHC's acceleration system to boost the energy to 5 TeV (Tera Electron volts, a unit of measuring particle accelerators), taking particle physics research to a new frontier.
Image: A photon source is seen in the CERN visitors' centre in Geneva-Meyrin, Switzerland.
Photograph: Johannes Simon/Getty Images
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