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LEP
(redirected from Large Electron-Positron Collider)

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LEP

(Light Emitting Polymer) An organic polymer that glows (emits photons) when excited by electricity. LEP screens are used to make organic LED (OLED) displays and are expected to compete with LCD screens in the future. See OLED.



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Vivid but sparse signs of the so-called Higgs boson at the Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) in Switzerland have also sparked a desperate race against time to catch further glimpses before researchers pull the plug on the 11-year-old machine.
Going back through the data from an earlier run of CERN's Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP), researchers have found no evidence of such extradimensional influences at up to an energy of 4 TeV, Cheung told SCIENCE NEWS.
By observing the numerous ways in which a particle known as the Z [degree] can decay into other particles, another huge group of researchers working at the Large Electron-Positron collider at the European Center for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, has tentatively set an upper limit of roughly 190 GeV on the top quark's mass.
 
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