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Hadron Collider Takes Well-Earned Break From Destroying Hadrons

CERN's Large Hadron Collider has collided its last hadron . The 27-kilometer (17-mile) ring, buried dozens of meters underground on the French and Swiss border, begins decommissioning today. The collider will not be dismantled, but upgraded as the High Luminosity Large Hadron…