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Old 02-March-2008, 07:08 PM
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No. Every day, particles slam into the upper atmosphere at energies 100's of millions of times more energetic than we can make in a collider.
Billslugg. True, and we don't monitor them too much, though we look for UHEC in some air shower arrays. So far no sign of a Higg's boson. Early tests of the LHC detectors have used algorithms searching cosmic ray secondaries to see if the mechanics are working out OK. So far, so good. Looking forward to the first runs. pete
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