3. Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest & most powerful particle accelerator cum collider. When it went live in September 2008, some people thought that the large Hadron Collider would end the world. Two high energy particle beams travel extremely fast close to the speed of light before collision inside the accelerator. Moreover, thousands of magnets of different sizes are used to direct the beams around the accelerator. Around 96 tonnes of superfluid helium-4 is needed to keep the magnets at their operating temperature of 1.9k, thus LHC is the largest cryogenic facility in the world at liquid helium temperature.
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