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British physicist to head up international super-collider effort

Shaun Nichols

21 June 2012 •

Lyn Evans will oversee merger of two collider programmes to work alongside LHC

Prominent British physicist Lyn Evans has been named as the head for a planned international particle accelerator effort. The International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) said that the...

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