Editorial use only. This image may not be used to state or imply endorsement by CERN of any product, activity or service LHC tunnel. Computer visualis

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Editorial use only. This image may not be used to state or imply endorsement by CERN of any product, activity or service LHC tunnel. Computer visualisation of the tunnel of the Large Hadron Collider or LHC, the particle accelerator due to start operations in 2006-7 at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva. The LHC will collide together counter-rotating beams of protons each accelerated to an energy of 7 TeV (tera-electronvolts) in a 27 km long underground ring of superconducting magnets. The magnets will be housed in the pipe- like structure, which is designed to keep them at their operating temperature of just 1. 9 degrees above absolute zero.

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