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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland is opening new vistas on the deepest secrets of the universe, stretching the imagination with newly discovered forms of matter, forces of nature, and dimensions of space. This site provides general information about the Large Hadron Collider and detailed information about American participation in the LHC accelerator and experiments. U.S. LHC participation is supported by the US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment producing two high-energy photons (red towers). This is what we would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Courtesy: CERN)

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Seth Zenz

I am a graduate student at the University of California, working with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory group on the ATLAS experiment and living in Geneva, Switzerland. I worked with the University of Chicago group on the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter as an undergraduate, and have helped in testing the ATLAS Pixel Detector with my current group, but my major focus at the moment is on testing the experiment's offline software and preparing to write my Ph.D. thesis once the LHC is running. In my spare time, I have taught math and physics to inmates at San Quentin Prison in California, as well as an hour-long lesson on gravity to second-graders.