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Large Hadron Collider: Quick Facts

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Large Hadron Collider
Large Hadron Collider
Higgs boson
A Feynman diagram showing two protons colliding, with their quarks interacting to produce W bosons that combine into a Higgs boson, which then decays into two Z bosons and further into electron and muon pairs.
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