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New CERN chief pledges to forge ahead with $17-billion supercollider

Physicist Mark Thomson will face several challenges — including bringing in enough money to build a colossal new particle-smashing ‘Higgs factory’.
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  1. Davide Castelvecchi

British particle physicist Mark Thomson has been named as the next leader of CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory outside Geneva, Switzerland.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03666-x

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