Cern's Large Hadron Collider Is Now Operational

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The largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world - the Large Hadron Collider in Cern resumed its activity today after a two year pause, stated the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN ).

CERN engineers solved the electrical problem on account of which the restart of the Large Hadron Collider had been postponed for two years. The metal fragment causing a short circuit in one of the giant magnets of the accelerator was removed successfully .

 One of the objectives of the repair was increasing twice the energy of the collision of protons bundles compared to 2012 - from 8 to 13TW. Scientists stated their hope that such a level of energy will open new opportunities for research.

Collisions of protons with double the power of the current, however, will be resumed later on, by May. These collisions occurring at a speed close to that of light, and led to the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson particle. The conditions created were similar to those of the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago - the event believed to have given the beginning of the universe. 

Results of impacts are now captured by giant detectors of the Large Hadron Collider and analyzed by researchers at CERN and around the world. They search for new information regarding space and its driving forces on an elementary particle level.

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