well at least we got invited to pay and play

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

   GENEVA (AP) -- A 19-nation European coalition approved building the
world's most powerful atom-smasher Friday, and said it hopes the United
States, Japan and other nations will help finance the $2 billion project.
   As many as 1,000 top American scientists are hoping to conduct
experiments using the European-built super collider since the U.S. Congress
scrapped its own superconducting super collider project last year.
   The Large Hadron Collider, as the European project is called, is to be
built in a 17-mile circular tunnel already in existence beneath Switzerland
and France, near Geneva. Hadron is the term for subatomic particles made of
quarks, such as protons and neutrons; electrons are not made of quarks.
   The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which is building the
project, has asked the United States, Japan, Russia, China, India and other
nations to contribute a total of $385 million in exchange for letting their
scientists work on it.




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