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When the world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, opens next year near Geneva, the focal point of the high-energy physics world will shift from U.S. soil for the first time in half a century. Bummer, indeed. But America’s brightest are busy devising a rescue plan. In April, a panel of U.S.