Large Hadron Collider

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1. Wikipedia: Large Hadron Collider
2. Large Hadron Collider: CERN Homepage | UK Homepage | Safety Information
3. Official Site: LHC Computing Grid Project
4. Official Site: LHC@home  
5. Symmetry Magazine: Full documentation for the Large Hadron Collider
6. MSNBC: Supercollider shut down until spring (September 23, 2008)
7. YouTube Video: BBC Profile on the LHC (Time 7:32)

Large Hadron Collider Recent News

• Official Site: News
• CERN: LHC NEWS
• Scientific American: More Delays for LHC... (September 23, 2008)
• Times Online: CERN Delays atom-smashing over magnet fault (September 20, 2008)
• The New York Times: CERN Launches Particle Collider (September 10, 2008)
• The New York Times: CERN Launches Particle Collider (September 10, 2008)
• Reuters: Five facts about CERN's Large Hadron Collider (September 9, 2008)
• Telegraph UK: Stephen Hawking: Large Hadron Collider vital for humanity (September 9, 2008)
• Telegraph UK: Scientists get death threats over Large Hadron Collider (September 5, 2008)
• New Scientist: Why the world WON'T end on September 10 (September 1, 2008)
• MSNBC: Final Countdown for Collider (August 25, 2008)
• Guardian Unlimited: Lawrence Krauss: Worth every penny (June 30, 2008)
• The New York Times: Earth Will Survive After All, Physicists Say (June 30, 2008)
• Guardian Unlimited: Brian Cox: A Journey to the Edge of Understanding (June 30, 2008)
• Science Daily: If The Large Hadron Collider Produced A ... Black Hole... (June 30, 2008)
• Scientific American: Timeline for the Large Hadron Collider (2008 to 2019) (April 14, 2008)
• Sydney Morning Herald: Fight to save Earth from tiny black hole (April 2, 2008)

Large Hadron Collider Videos

• YouTube Video: Large Hadron Collider: A whistlestop tour (Time 4:04)
• YouTube Video: BBC Profile on the LHC (Time 7:32)
• YouTube Video: Big Bang v2.0 (Time: 4:19)
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Large Hadron Collider Blogs and Communities

• LHC Machine Outreach: Blog
• Wired: Large Hadron Collider: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios (September 9, 2008)
• Guardian: Guardian takes on the Big Bang machine (June 30, 2008)
• Gizmodo: The End Is Not Near: Report Confirms ... (June 30, 2008)
• Google Blog Search: Large Hadron Collider

Large Hadron Collider Articles

• Seed Magazine: Why a Large Hadron Collider? (July 6, 2006)
• DISCOVER Magazine: The Biggest Thing in Physics | Beyond the Higgs
• Popular Science: Can This Machine Rescue Physics? (August 8, 2006)

• The New York Times: The Race is on for the 'God Particle' (June 24, 2007)
• WIRED: Subatomic Inferno Under the Alps (November 30, 2006)

Large Hadron Collider History

• LHC Milestones: Flash | HTML
• 1994: CERN Council approves construction of LHC
• 1995: Japan becomes an Observer of CERN and announces a financial contribution to the LHC
• 1996: Four years after the first technical proposals, the experiments CMS and ATLAS are officially approved
• Feb. 1997: The ALICE experiment is officially approved
• Dec. 1997: The United States signs an agreement to take part in the LHC
• Jun. 1998: The first prototype magnet with a 15 metre nominal length is tested successfully
• Sep. 1994: LHCb is the fourth experiment approved for the LHC
• Feb. 1999: The industrial production of the ATLAS toroid magnet system, the largest in the world, starts with the manufacture of the superconducting cables
• Nov. 2000: The first of the 1232 main dipole magnets for the LHC are delivered
• Jan. 2001: The European DataGrid project (EDG) is launched
• Jun. 2001: ALICE moves in
• Mar. 2002: The series of exceptional load deliveries begins for the ATLAS toroidal magnet system
• Oct. 2002: The series of exceptional load deliveries begins for the ATLAS toroidal magnet system
• Jan. 2003: The assembly of the LHCb experiment begins
• Mar. 2003: The last cubic metre of ground is dug for the whole LHC project, marking the end of excavation work for the new accelerator
• Jun. 2004: The last cubic metre of ground is dug for the whole LHC project, marking the end of excavation work for the new accelerator
• Oct. 2004: ATLAS begins the installation of its magnet system
• Feb. 2006: The new CERN Control Centre, which combines all the control rooms for the accelerators, the cryogenics and the technical infrastructure, starts operation
• Aug. 2006: A sixth experiment at the LHC is officially approved
• Nov. 2006: Magnet production for the LHC is complete
• 2007: LHC scheduled to begin end of year

Large Hadron Collider Figures

• Seed Magazine: CERN by the Numbers
• CERN: LHC Design Report
• CERN: LHC Progress Dashboard

Large Hadron Collider Research

ATLAS

• Homepage
• eTours
• Movies
• Multimedia
• Wikipedia

CMS

• Homepage
• Wikipedia
• Outreach
• Movies
• CMS Times
• U.S. CMS

ALICE

• Homepage
• Panorama
• News
• Videos
• Photos
• Wikipedia

LHCb

• Home Page
• Videos
• Photos
• Wikipedia

TOTEM

• Homepage

Large Hadron Collider Education Resources

• Large Hadron Collider: Teacher's Resources | Teaching Materials | For Students

Large Hadron Collider Media

• The New York Times: The Large Hadron Collider Slideshow
• CERN Podcast: Homepage
• Documentary: Hunting Beauty (Time: 12:00)
• YouTube: The ATLAS Experiment videos  
• CERN: LHC Photos
• Seed Magazine: Lords of the Ring
• Seed Magazine: Discovery for the Sake of Discovery Slideshow

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