American participation in the LHC will inject a wealth of scientific experience, excellence and characteristic exuberance into the project. government.Īt the signing Professor Llewellyn Smith said: 'This is an historic event. The agreement is also the first between CERN and the U.S.

will contribute significantly to the construction of an accelerator outside the U.S. While there is a long history of international collaboration in high energy physics experiments, this is the first time the U.S. Lane, the Director-General of CERN, Christopher Llewellyn Smith, and the president of the CERN Council, Luciano Maiani signed the agreement in the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Energy, Federico Pena, the director of the National Science Foundation, Neal F. The LHC will give scientists tools to address the persistent mysteries of matter and energy such as: What gives the particles of matter their mass? Why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe? What is the invisible Dark Matter that accounts for so much of the universe? It will bring protons into head-on collision at higher energies than ever achieved before to allow scientists to penetrate still further into the structure of matter.

The new accelerator is being built at CERN 1, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

When completed in 2005, the 27-kilometre circumference accelerator will be the most powerful in the world. participation in the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC), a particle accelerator under construction near Geneva, Switzerland. and European officials today signed an agreement for U.S.

Eu funding of the large hadron collider