Large Hadron Collider Back Online
As of this past Sunday the world’s largest particle accelerator is back online and ready to do science according to a spokeswoman from the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
The agency, known as CERN in Europe, successfully sent low energy proton beams around the 27-kilometer collider over the weekend, marking the first such successful test run since mid-December when the facility was shut down for improvements and internal testing.
Scientists will begin sending much higher-energy beams by the end of this month with particle collisions expected to easily break the current record set by researchers at the Tevatron at Fermilab in the United States. By shattering subatomic particles, CERN scientists hope to learn more about the nature of antimatter and dark matter in their quest for a better understanding of the universe, and its beginnings, as a whole.
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