If you were ever puzzled about the fact that the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider record huge datasets despite the tiny probability of two protons colliding, this is for you. Steven Goldfarb and Katarina Anthony connect the dots.
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Goldfarb, S., Anthony, K. Broad as a barn. Nat. Phys. 15, 414 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0490-z
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