Scientists of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Sunday after the launch of a two-year break, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), reports Reuters.
According to scientists, one of the two proton beams locked accelerator collider ring.
Large Hadron Collider has not worked for two years. Specialists retooled its equipment and wiring.
It is hardly to be expected that the collider will make any new discoveries until mid-2016, notes Reuters.
The LHC is an accelerator of charged particles colliding beams, designed to accelerate protons and heavy ions and study the products of their collisions. It is built CERN in an underground tunnel length of 27 km at a depth of 50-175 m on the border of Switzerland and France. The LHC was launched in the autumn of 2008, but due to an accident experiments on it only began in November 2009, and at full capacity, he was released in March 2010.
In the construction of the facility, in studies involving more than Collider 10 thousand. scientists and engineers from more than 100 countries worldwide. The cost of construction is more than 6 billion euros.
4 July 2012 Physics CERN announced the discovery at the LHC particle that with high probability is a Higgs boson – its existence was to confirm the validity of the Standard Model of the structure of matter. Journalists called boson “God particle” and “damn particle”.
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