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Science 27 February 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5355, p. 1296
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5355.1296
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PHYSICS:
Reports Call for New Super-Accelerator

David Kestenbaum

Two U.S. reports on the state of particle physics released last week say that another collider will be needed if physicists are to assemble a complete picture of the particles and forces that constitute the world. Physicists are asking for one of three very different (and very expensive) devices: a scaled-up Large Hadron Collider, a Next Linear Collider that would smash electrons together, or a device that would collide muons--the electron's short-lived, heavy brothers. Any one of the three would of necessity be an international effort.

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