The particle accelerator LHC (Large Hadron Collider), managed by CERN, which contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, was reinstated on Sunday at the end of a stage of upgrading its equipment which lasted two years.
This reinstatement in service was broadcast live on the official blog of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). One of the two beams of particles that have been issued has come full circle forming this tunnel underground laboratory, which stretches over a distance of 27 kilometers.
Upgrading of equipment that make up the LHC, over the past two years will allow, according to scientists, the development of major scientific discoveries in quantum physics.
Results of the first experiments are expected in mid-2016.
Restarting the LHC was scheduled for late March, but the procedure was delayed for several days due to a power failure.
Particle collisions inside the LHC are generated by researchers to recreate the conditions that existed shortly after the Big Bang, the first moments of life in the universe. In an extraordinary scientific achievements in 2012, scientists at CERN announced that they had discovered a new subatomic particle, a basic element that underpin the Universe, which turned out to be famous boson imagined and named half a century before physicist Peter Higgs.
Hopes scientists related to relaunch operated by CERN particle accelerator operating principles aimed at deciphering the "Standard Model" - theoretical model that describes how the universe works at the level of elementary particles - but also the development of new discoveries in a field Innovative, called "New physics".
These target search of dark matter, which makes up 96% of the mass of the universe and can be detected only through the influence it has on visible matter around it.
Source: mediafax
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