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(欧洲核子研究中心的型强子对撞(LHC)专用探测器)实验结果的分析表明，电子-正电子的数量对比介子对更。

In 2010, scientists at CERN smashed heavy ions and created a tiny fireball inside the LHC that was so hot, protons and neutrons melted into their fundamental components called quarks and gluons.

2010 年，欧洲核子研究中心的科学家粉碎重离子，在型强子对撞内部创造了一个非常热的小火球，质子和中子融化成它们的基本成分夸克和胶子。

There is a huge community of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly concerning LHC.

那里有批科学家，他们知道他们在坦坤什么，关于LHC，他们安枕无忧。

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

而在型强子对撞上的这两个独立实验（称为CMS和ATLAS）就已经检测到这样的反常频密现象。

To stand a chance of seeing strings, we'd need a particle accelerator a million, billion times bigger than the LHC.

为了能有会看到弦，我们需要一台粒子加速器，它要比型强子对撞 1000 万亿倍。

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的LHC对撞黯然失色, 但费米实验室仍处在粒子物理学的沿。

If we did see evidence of black holes at the LHC, that would be absolutely amazing because it tells us that everything we think we know about gravity, general relativity, and so on, isn't right.

如果我们能从型强子对撞得到确凿的证据，那将是绝对惊人的，因为它将告诉我们，我们所熟知的关于引力、广义相对论等等的一切知识，都是错的。

But nevertheless this creates problems in the general public where LHC is concerned and we have to answer to that.

但是既然公众担忧可能会产生问题，我们就必须进行回答。

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

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

The ALICE detector sits in the LHC at the spot where the two beams of ions collide.

ALICE 探测器位于型强子对撞中两束离子碰撞的位置。

The LHC collides beams of protons.

型强子对撞对轰质子束。

In addition to revealing what this early state of matter was like, the LHC'S experiments are also painting a picture of the transition between that strange liquid and everything we see in the universe today.

除了揭示这种早期物质状态是什么样的，型强子对撞的实验也描绘了这种奇怪液体和我们今天在宇宙中看到的一切之间的转变。

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.

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

Back at the LHC, far beyond the Higgs, smaller than the innards of a quark, Andy Parker believes ATLAS could reveal something that, at this tiny scale, shouldn't really exist.

回到型强子对撞，安迪·帕克相信 ATLAS 能发现远小于希格斯粒子的物质，甚至比夸克内部结构还要小，如此小的规模本不应该存在。

The LHC is a ring over 16 miles long, and particles can travel around it over 11,000 times every second.

型强子对撞是一个超过 16 英里长的环，粒子每秒可以绕着它飞行 11000 次。

The challenge here at the LHC is to look inside the protons by smashing them to pieces.

型强子对撞临的挑战是要设法击碎质子，看清它们的内部。

So by slamming together heavy stuff like lead ions, scientists using the LHC can create the most extreme energies ever produced in a lab.

因此，通过将铅离子等重物猛烈结合在一起，科学家们使用型强子对撞可以创造出实验室有史以来最极端的能量。

In the summer of 2012, scientists at the LHC announced the discovery of the famous Higgs particle.

2012 年的夏天，在型强子对撞工作的科学家们宣布发现了著名的希格斯粒子。

When the LHC is running ALICE experiments, it shoots beams of lead ions into gold or more lead.

当型强子对撞运行 ALICE 实验时，它将铅离子束射入金或更铅中。

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

2012 年， 型强子对撞因维修和升级而停运。