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Rice Physicist to Direct $40M LHC Program

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HOUSTON, April 26, 2006 -- Rice University announced that physicist B. Paul Padley has been chosen to lead the scientific operations for one of the particle detector systems at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Scheduled to begin operations next year, LHC will be the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. Padley, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been chosen to lead the scientific operations of the $40 million CMS Endcap Muon System, one of the major particle detector subsystems of the 13,000-ton Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). Muons are short-lived...Read full article

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    Published: April 2006
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