The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest accelerator in the world, began working again after two years of maintenance work and tuning and several months of preparation for the new on.
This was announced Sunday in a statement the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN), which specified that at 08.41 GMT today a proton beam turned the LHC in a sense, and less than two hours later, another beam did the same in reverse.
On March 24, CERN announced that the start full operation of its large proton accelerator suffer a delay due to an intermittent short.
Those responsible assured that the type of problem encountered was known and that its impact would be minimal in the operation of the LHC , which was stopped two years, during which was subjected to a thorough technical review.
The beams circulated energy injection and in the coming days, after verifying that everything works properly, the energy will increase gradually.
The idea is that each proton beam circulated get an energy of 6.5 TeV (teralectronvoltios), resulting collisions at an energy of 13 TeV.
In this new phase of operations, improved throttle can use full capacity for physics in the period between 2016 and 2018 , during which aims to shed light on the composition of the dark matter.
The LHC It is the most powerful machine that exists, with conductor magnets which work like batteries, and its stored energy equivalent to that of an aircraft carrier traveling at 43 miles per hour or an Airbus 380 flying five hundred miles per hour.
The accelerator has the shape of a ring 27 kilometers in circumference and is located within about fifty feet underground, on the border of Switzerland and France tunnel.
To work required to be at a temperature of 217 degrees Celsius, lower than that of space, and that was achieved late last year.
In 2012, the LHC allowed one of the greatest discoveries made so far in the world of physics: empirically demonstrate the Higgs boson, which confirmed the Standard Model in particle physics that is based
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