Inside the collider

摘要

Mentioning particle physics may silence many dinner parties, but that has not deterred its funders. By the end of 2010, more than €7 billion (US$10 billion) had been ploughed into the current world-leading machine in experimental particle physics - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe's high-energy physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. So it behooves the researchers involved to communicate the relevance of the LHC s science goals to the public.