Taking the Large Hadron Collider to the Max

These four fixes will double the power of the world's greatest physics machine

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Taking the Large Hadron Collider to the Max
Sleep No More: The Atlas experiment, dormant for two years, will rumble back to life following several upgrades.
Photo: Claudia Marcelloni De Oliveira

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