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Physicist Jonathan Butterworth on the collisions of particles, the Large Hadron Collider detectors, and how to detect a neutrino.

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'You can think of the Large Hadron Collider as the most powerful microscope that we've ever built because we're studying the structure of matter at the smallest distances that humanity has ever been able to probe.'

Jonathan Butterworth, Professor of Physics, University College London

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