Large Hadron Collider back in business | EarthSky
Large Hadron Collider back in business
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CERN in Switzerland just announced that its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collected data today (June 3, 2015) for the first time in over 2 years, following a $150 million overhaul. Situated 100 meters beneath tranquil countryside on the Franco-Swiss border, the LHC is a 17-mile (27-km) underground ring. It’s the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, the largest and most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world.
At 10:40 a.m. this morning (local time), operators in the CERN control room guided two stable beams of protons – particles found within all atoms – around the LHC before slamming them into one another at designated points.
Energetic smash-ups like these will let physicists in the coming years explore the tiny parts that make up the atoms from which our world and universe are made.
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The LHC’s first run was from 2010 to 2013. That first run resulted, among other things, in the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson — also known as the “God Particle” – a sub-atomic particle predicted by a theory in physics known as the Standard Model.
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