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To pinpoint the smallest fractions of matter in the universe the largest machine in high energy physics ever is being commissioned at CERN near Geneva in Switzerland. The main motivation of the Large Hadron Collider project LHC is to study the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking for which the Higgs mechanism is presumed to be responsible. The experimental study of the Higgs mechanism will explore the consistency of the Standard Model in particle physics at energy scales above about 1 TeV.
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Pooth, O. (2010). Introduction. In: The CMS Silicon Strip Tracker. Vieweg+Teubner. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9639-1_1
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