CERN prepares to make history again

The tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson is approaching and CERN, the largest research center in the world, located near Geneva, is preparing to write new chapters of scientific discoveries.

On July 4, 2012, CERN scientists confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle behind the origin of mass. The scientists who developed that theory, François Englert and Peter Higgs, later received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

The LHC will restart at an unprecedented level of collision energy

A decade later, CERN seeks to write a new page in the history of science. On July 5, the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle collider, will restart after three years of shutdown and upgrade, and will do so at an unprecedented level of collision energy.

“For the first time we will collide protons in the LHC at a record energy of 6.8 trillion tev per beam. At this energy the collision will be at 13.6 teraelectronvolts (tev). From this moment on, the data collection of the experiment will come for a long period of 3 years, hoping that we will have new discoveries and interesting things that come out of these collisions”, explains Delphine Jacquet, engineer responsible for the Large Hadron Collider.

In the LHC, a 27-kilometre tunnel located 100 meters deep, particles collide at close to the speed of light. High-sensitivity instruments can collect data 30 million times per second.

By studying the infinitely small, physicists want to understand the infinitely large and thus have the opportunity to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of the origin of the Universe.

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