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the LHC tunnel (Photo: CERN) At work inside the LHC tunnel
(Photo: CERN)  Lancaster University Physicists are celebrating
their work on two landmark experiments which are attempting to
understand the building blocks of the universe.  Lancaster
scientists were in Switzerland over the weekend observing the
successful switch on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the
world's biggest science experiment. Shortly after 2pm on Monday,
23 November, engineers operating the LHC successfully smashed
together proton beams in the machine for the very first time.
These were observed in the ATLAS detector which was developed by
a team including Lancaster Physicists.  Meanwhile on Tuesday, 24
November, Lancaster Particle Physicists working on the T2K
(Tokai-to-Kamioka) neutrino