UA Physicists Ready for Science with World's Most Powerful Accelerator

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This artists graphic shows the underground ATLAS detector along the 17-mile subsurface tunnel the Large Hadron Collider at the Swiss-Franco border. Protons will smash into each other with unprecedented impact speeds.
This artist's graphic shows the underground ATLAS detector along the 17-mile subsurface tunnel, the Large Hadron Collider at the Swiss-Franco border. Protons will smash into each other with unprecedented impact speeds.

The University of Arizona is known for doing Big Science. It partners in the most powerful telescope projects on Earth and in space. It makes the world's largest telescope mirrors. It leads a global center tackling the toughest problems in plant biology. It directs a lander mission to Mars.


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