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PEOPLE
2900 scientists
37 countries
172 universities and labs
 
SIZE
100 747 jets (empty) is weight of ATLAS Detector
0.5 ATLAS is half the size of Notre Dame Cathedral
122 kilometers of superconducting wire in magnets
3000 kilometers of ordinary cable in ATLAS
 
PRECISION
MEASUREMENT
0.001 centimeters (0.0004 inches)
 
DATA RECORDED
3200 terabytes equivalent to:
7 kilometers of CDROMs stacked on top
100 million electronic channels
 
LHC PROTONS
99.9999991 per cent of the speed of light
11000 times per second circling the 27 km ring
 
LHC ENERGY
7 times the energy of any previous accelerator
 
LHC TEMPERATURE
EQUIVALENT
1 billionth of second after Big Bang
100000 times temperature of sun


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