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Letter: For the record

Published 1 June 2005

• Our special report about the Large Hadron Collider (21 May, p 10) wrongly stated that superconducting magnets will accelerate the protons. In fact, the protons will be accelerated inside radio-frequency cavities. The magnets will curve and focus the protons as they circle within the accelerator.

Issue no. 2502 published 4 June 2005

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