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Published online 13 February 2008 | Nature 451, 756-757 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451756b

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From Russia with scintillation

The story of CERN's crucial crystals.

This week, one of the most ambitious and unusual bulk orders in science will finally be filled. At a former Soviet weapons plant in the Russian town of Bogoroditsk, workers will pull from one of their 159 ovens the last of thousands of highly specialized crystals being produced for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS).

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