UVic physicists celebrate supercollider success

On March 30 a new era of discovery about the basic nature of the universe opened with the first proton collision at the 27-km Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. UVic physicists Michel Lefebvre and Rob McPherson are members of the UVic-ATLAS team that designed and built crucial components for a detector that records the debris resulting from colliding trillions of protons at the highest energies ever reached by a particle accelerator. Times-Colonist story »