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The Large Hadron Collider, built by scientists and engineers from more than 40 countries, is designed to study basic problems of elementary particle physics and the early history of the universe. This scientific paper presented at an RAS Presidium meeting by the heads of the leading Russian institutes participating in this large international collaboration was devoted to the research program of this accelerator complex with opposing proton beams and heavy nuclei, the role of international scientific collaboration in the development of science, and the contribution of Russian specialists to the elaboration of unique equipment for the collider. Materials of this RAS Presidium meeting are published below.
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Original Russian Text © V.A. Matveev, A.N. Sisakyan, A.N. Skrinsky, 2010, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2010, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 204–217.
Academician Viktor Anatol’evich Matveev is director of the RAS Institute for Nuclear Research. Academician Aleksei Norairovich Sisakyan is director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Academician Aleksandr Nikolaevich Skrinsky is director of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, RAS Siberian Branch.
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Matveev, V.A., Sisakyan, A.N. & Skrinsky, A.N. The large hadron collider is a new step towards understanding the depths of matter. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 80, 130–142 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331610020048
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