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News release prepared by: Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, 785-532-6415, ebarcomb@k-state.edu

Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008

NEWS TIP: TWO K-STATE PHYSICS PROFESSORS INVOLVED IN SWISS LABORATORY'S LARGE HADRON COLLIDER, SET TO CIRCULATE FIRST BEAM SEPT. 10

MANHATTAN -- Two Kansas State University physics professors have worked for the past seven years helping bring to life the world's most powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland.

The collider is set to circulate its first beam Wednesday, Sept. 10.

Tim Bolton, K-State physics professor and project leader, led a group of undergraduates with Russell Taylor, an engineer with the K-State Electronics Design Laboratory, in testing thousands of parts of the inner pixel tracker detector of the Compact Muon Solenoid. The work was done in the high bay laboratory at the K-State department of physics. Bolton can be reached at 785-532-1664 or tbolton@k-state.edu.

Yurii Maravin, assistant professor of physics, spent nearly a year in Geneva, working on the Compact Muon Solenoid detector, which detects electrons and photons known as the electromagnetic calorimeter. Maravin can be reached at 785-532-1638 or maravin@k-state.edu.