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Nature Insight: The Large Hadron Collider

Vol. 448, No. 7151 pp 269-312

In 2008, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will come into operation at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. The highest-energy accelerator ever built, it heralds a new era in particle-physics research, in which we hope to complete the standard model and even go beyond, into a new realm of physics.

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Editorial

The Large Hadron Collider

Alison Wright & Richard Webb

doi:10.1038/448269a

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Glossary

The standard model of particle physics

doi:10.1038/nature06073

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Articles

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The making of the standard model

Gerard 't Hooft

doi:10.1038/nature06074

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High-energy colliders and the rise of the standard model

Terry Wyatt

doi:10.1038/nature06075

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How the LHC came to be

Chris Llewellyn Smith

doi:10.1038/nature06076

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Building a behemoth

Oliver Brüning & Paul Collier

doi:10.1038/nature06077

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Detector challenges at the LHC

Steinar Stapnes

doi:10.1038/nature06078

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Beyond the standard model with the LHC

John Ellis

doi:10.1038/nature06079

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The quest for the quark–gluon plasma

Peter Braun-Munzinger & Johanna Stachel

doi:10.1038/nature06080

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The God particle et al.

Leon Lederman

doi:10.1038/nature06081

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