Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
1. is the world’s largest particle accelerator and constructed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
2. involved Indian scientists in the design of several of its components.
3. led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
1. is the world&rsquo;s largest particle accelerator and constructed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
2. involved Indian scientists in the design of several of its components.
3. led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass.

Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3

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Statement 1 is correct: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world&rsquo;s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.

Statement 2 is correct: In the Construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Indian scientists have been involved in the design of many components of the LHC, whereas construction of those took place by scientists and engineers through Indian industries.

Statement 3 is correct: The Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) simultaneously by the two large multipurpose experiments detector ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS). The discovery was announced on the 4th of July 2012 at CERN. The new scalar (spin 0) boson was observed at the time mainly in two rare decay channels offering the cleanest signal, the decay in a pair of photons, which involved a purely quantum virtual process, and the direct decay in a pair of Z bosons, the carrier of the neutral weak interaction. The Higgs boson is the fundamental force-carrying particle of the Higgs field, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass.

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 1. is the world’s largest particle accelerator and constructed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research. 2. involved Indian scientists in the design of several of its components. 3. led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which is responsible for granting other particles their mass. Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct? (a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) 1, 2 and 3

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