CERN LHC up and running after 2 year hiatus

The Large Hadron Collider, or for short LHC, has been restarted after a 2 year hiatus, and is ready to go deep into new physics.

In 2012, scientists discovered the Higgs Boson, called The God Particle by the mainstream media, and it was one of the greatest things to be discovered in the past decade. Scientists are hopeful that now, after upgrading the LHC and spending $150 million, they will meddle with new physics and they will soon find out if Higgs Boson has relatives – distant cousins more likely.

Restarting the LHC after a 2 year hiatus doesn’t mean that it will start smashing particles. Scientists will need to re-calibrate each and every single instrument – ” It will take us about six weeks to two months to establish the first stable collisions for the experiments, because we have to commission all the instruments, all the systems one by one.” – Joerg Wenninger, coordinator of LHC operations.

Besides researching dark matter, scientists are hoping to prove, or disprove, the new so-called theory – Supersymmetry – it basically says that every particle has a partner particle.

If proven to be correct, this theory can fix major issues with the Standard Model – more exactly fixing the mass of the Higgs Boson. Supersymmetry can also explain how dark matter works, its mass, and how its linked to everything.

The Higgs Boson was thought to be the last missing particle to fill up the Standard Model, but with this new theory, questions have been raised on actually how many particles are there?

A scientist that is involved with the CERN LHC, Tara Shears from the University of Liverpool, has said that – “Of course in every particle physics experiment we’ve ever done, we’ve been wanting to make a big, unknown discovery, but now it’s become particularly pressing, because with Run One and the discovery of the Higgs, we’ve discovered everything that our existing theory predicts.”

So it’s safe to say that we will most likely enter a new era filled with scientific theories that will baffle our minds.

The Large Hadron Collider, commonly known as LHC, was built between 1998 and 2008 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, and it is the world’s largest, and most powerful particle collider machine to ever be built. Spanning 27 km, or 17 miles, in circumference, and as deep as 175 metres, or 574 feet, it is also the world’s longest machine.

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