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All the focus on the LHC is generally on the enormous, 26km circumference of the main accelerator ring. But, according to Paul Collier, the head of CERN’s Beams Department, the protons that form the main beams of the LHC travel roughly 6 million kilometers before even reaching the LHC, and these early steps are essential to making the LHC the highest energy, highest intensity particle collider ever built. And once inside the LHC, the proton beams still need to be accelerated and shaped even further before collisions can take place.

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