The thing is you haven't asked anything, you've made your own assumptions and presented them as facts. There is a single accelerator that provides the proton be

The thing is you haven't asked anything, you've made your own assumptions and presented them as facts. There is a single accelerator that provides the proton beams: the LHC, and there are two independently designed and built huge main detectors where collisions happen and two independent collaborations, one for each, that actually make the measurements and then analyze the data of just theirs. At the LHC there's ATLAS and CMS, they don't share any data nor staff, and both of them have found the Higgs. Once they publish their results, they are statistically combined so you have a single value for whatever property at the PDG. This is how it's done, for obvious scientific-method-done-right reasons, at CERN at least since 1978 with UA1 and UA2. But you're not interested in what's really going on, because you're well versed in politics AKA bullshit, so you can't even grasp that there are competent people actually doing their job, with stellar standards let me add, and I know because I've seen a lot of bullshit in action almost everywhere in this fake it until you make it society we're building so merrily, but not there. You wouldn't believe it, people actually working? surely they're scamming us honest maligners, eh? I left out a relevant factoid. It's almost impossible for a scientist to become CERN staff, they mostly hire engineers. There are about 25 physicists at the Theory division and a few more scattered around with a fellowship. Usually scientists are paid by universities or investigation institutes from all around the world. Countries pay their contribution to the budget because it's not a very good idea for your R&D to miss it.