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Authors: Leon M. Lederman,Christopher T. Hill
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detectors.
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ATLAS; CMS; ALICE; LHCb
magnet explosion,
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magnets,
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magnet
tunnel.
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LEP tunnel
LHCb (CERN, LHC experiment),
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light.
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photon
linac,
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Lister, Joseph Jackson,
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Livingston, M. Stanley,
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London, Fritz,
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magnet,
dipole,
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ferromagnet,
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magnetic lens.
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lens
magnetism,
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magnetization,
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quench,
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superconducting,
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magnetic field,
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magnification.
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lens
Main Injector (Fermilab),
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MAP (Muon Accelerator Project),
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mass,
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definition of,
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Dirac mass,
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elementary particle mass,
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inertial,
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Majorana mass of neutrinos,
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masslessness,
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measuring,
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muon mass from Higgs field,
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Maxwell, James Clerk,
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McMillan, Edwin,
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Mendeleev, Dmitri,
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MeV, “million electron volts.”
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electron volt
microscope,
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Mills, Robert,
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mirror image, mirror world.
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parity
molecules,
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momentum,
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motion in space-time,
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muon,
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Muon Collider (proposed m
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Mu2e experiment (Fermilab),
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Nambu, Yoichiro,
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Neddermeyer, Seth,
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neutrino,
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CP violation,
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mass,
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neutrino factory,
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oscillations,
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neutron
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neutron beta decay,
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Nevis Lab.
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Columbia University
Newton, Isaac,
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Noether, Emmy; Noether's Theorem,
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Norquist, Grover,
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NOnA (Fermilab experiment),
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nucleus,
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Oliphant, Sir Marcus,
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Onion
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P.
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parity
Pauli, Wolfgang,
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parity,
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particle accelerator,
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Periodic Table of the Elements,
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PET (positron emission tomography),
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photon,
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pi meson, pion, or
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meson,
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Planck, Max,
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Plato,
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plutonium,
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Pontecorvo, Bruno,
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positron (anti-electron),
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Project X (proposed Fermilab proton accelerator),
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proton,
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proton decay experiments,
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Proton Synchrotron (CERN accelerator),
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QCD.
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quantum chromodynamics