The Soviet Particle Accelerator That Time Forgot

Last September, work began on a new particle accelerator in the small Russian town of Dubna, just outside of Moscow, slated for completion in 2016. Dubbed NIKA, it is intended to complement Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider -- which aims to discover more subatomic particles, most notably the Higgs boson -- to investigate the process by which such particles first appeared by recreating the conditions of the Big Bang.

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The Soviet Particle Accelerator That Time Forgot