The largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world get going again this Sunday , after a two year hiatus, announced the CERN , the European organization for nuclear research.
This new implementation of the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC , for its acronym in English), located in the Franco-Swiss border, which includes a ring-shaped tunnel 27 kilometers, will allow to carry out a second phase of exploring unknown territories of physics.
The particle accelerator, located about 100 meters underground , was to confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson, by which two scientists CERN succeeded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012.
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This element, which helped explain how objects have mass, is considered as a key component of the fundamental structure of matter, known as the ‘God particle’.
This Sunday at 10:41 am, a proton beam turned the ring of 27 km diameter of LHC in a sense, then, at 24:27 a second beam traveled the same circuit in reverse, said CERN in a statement.
“Today, the heart of CERN back to beat the rhythm of LHC “ Rolf Heuer, general manager commended, said in a statement.
In the coming days, traders will check all systems before increasing the energy of the beams entering the LHC in its second exploration campaign.
During the two years of work stoppage, hundreds of engineers and technicians worked to repair and strengthen the particle accelerator to make it operate with greater energy, and thus allow physicists expand their research field and confirming or invalidating some theories.
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