LHC Breaks Beam Luminosity World Record

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The LHC smashed a record-breaking number of particles at midnight Geneva time last night, setting a new standard for beam intensity. CERN replaced Fermilab’s former record of 4.024 × 10³²cm^-2s^-1 with a smug 4.67 × 10³²cm^-2s^-1. That’s a lot of zeros, ranging somewhere in the billions of billions. Of billions.

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