Though now offline, it eclipsed by CERN's LHC, Fermilab remains at the forefront of particle physics.

虽然现在处于退役状态, 在欧洲核子研究中心LHC对撞机面黯然失色, 但费米实验室仍处在粒子物理学沿。

The LHC collides beams of protons.

大型强子对撞机对轰质子束。

Don Lincoln is one of hundreds of scientists at Fermilab in suburban Chicago reviewing the data produced by LHC.

多恩·林肯是芝加哥郊区费米实验室数百名研究欧洲大型强子对撞机（LHC）传回数据科学家其中一位。

And it is just such excess that two separate experiments at the LHC, known as CMS and ATLAS, have detected.

而在大型强子对撞机上这两个独立实验（称为CMS和ATLAS）已经检测到这样频密现象。

That's what the LHC is currently doing.

这是大型强子对撞机在做事情。

In 2012, the LHC was shut down for repairs and upgrades.

2012 年， 大型强子对撞机因维修和升级而停运。

Run 2 of the lhc, however, found no evidence of sparticles.

然而，lhc 第 2 次运行没有发现超粒子证据。

The lhc's latest run may provide the wind needed to fill them properly.

lhc 最新运行可能会提供确填充它们所需风。

When that gets boring, you could move on to particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland.

当这变得无聊时， 您可以转向粒子加速器，例如瑞士大型强子对撞机 (LHC)。

It might be possible to observe this at the LHC, the Large Hadron Car lighter at CERN in Switzerland.

在瑞士欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)大型强子汽车打火机 大型强子对撞机(LHC)或许可以观察到这一点。

In the LHC, two proton beams move in opposite directions and are accelerated to near the speed of light.

在大型强子对撞机中， 两束质子束沿相方向运动，并被加速到接近光速。

If the LHC's proton beams have enough energy to produce it, that's probably an even rarer occurrence than the Higgs boson.

如果大型强子对撞机质子束有足够能量产生它，那可能比希格斯玻色子更罕见。

For a long time, people were worried that turning on the LHC would produce lots of little black holes that would eat the Earth.

很长一段时间，人们担心打开大型强子对撞机会产生大量小黑洞，吞噬地球。

If the LHC does find the Higgs, which the latest results suggest it might, its media-shy originator will certainly be summoned to the Nobel ceremony in Stockholm.

如果大型强子对撞机确实找到希格斯介子，最新结果表明这点很有可能，那么不愿在媒体亮相希格斯介子鼻祖肯定会被召至斯德哥尔摩诺贝尔颁奖典礼上。

But an analysis of results from the LHCB experiment (pictured), a purpose-built detector fitted to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), suggests electron-positron pairs are more abundant than muon pairs.

但是对LHCB(欧洲核子研究中心大型强子对撞机(LHC)专用探测器)实验结果分析表明，电子-电子数量对比介子对更多。

What helps the interaction are technological advances and global cooperation that allow scientists at Fermilab to remotely monitor and analyze data produced by the LHC's particle collisions some 7,000 kilometers away.

而维系这种关系是技术进步及全球合作, 这使得费米实验室科学家们能够远程监控并分析距离约7000公里远LHC粒子碰撞数据。

The challenge Mr Higgs set ultimately led to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC, illustrated above) the most ambitious—and, at SFr10 billion ($10 billion) the most expensive—scientific experiment in history.

希格斯设置挑战最终导致了大型强子对撞机（ LHC，如上图所示）建造，这在科学实验史上是最雄心勃勃，也是最昂贵，斥资100亿瑞士法朗（约合100亿美元）。

The LHC's pipes are made of materials, like stainless steel, that don't release any of their own molecules and are lined with a special coating to absorb stray gases.

大型强子对撞机管道由不锈钢等材料制成，这些材料不会释放自己任何分子，并衬有特殊涂层以吸收杂散气体。

In the case of the Higgs boson, the scientists at the LHC announced their groundbreaking result when there was only a one in 3 million chance this bump could have appeared by a statistical fluke.

在希格斯玻色子例子中，大型强子对撞机科学家们宣布了他们突破性结果，当时这个凸起因统计侥幸而出现可能性只有三百万分之一。