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Underground Research Laboratory of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland

  • Houses the Large Hadron Collider for particle physics experiments to learn about the basic forces that have shaped our Universe since the beginning of time

  • The detector hall is housed in a rock cavern at a depth of 92m, with dimensions 53m (long) x 35m (high) x 30m (wide)

  • Experiment carried out at CERN confirmed the theory related to the Higgs boson proposed by several physicists, two of whom were then awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

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