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The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the currently most powerful accelerator of the world. It serves as an ideal laboratory to search for new particles.
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Note, that the instantaneous luminosity in the LHC is not constant over time, but decays due to the degradation of intensities and emittances of the circulating beams, mainly due to beam loss from collisions.
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Köhler, N.M. (2019). The Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In: Searches for the Supersymmetric Partner of the Top Quark, Dark Matter and Dark Energy at the ATLAS Experiment. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25988-4_5
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