On Tuesday 9: 00 Central Europe time and after two years of repairs the proton collisions began again at CERN's large underground accelerator (LHC).
The first clashes as reported by CERN, were tested with low energy (450 gigaelectronvolts or GeV per radius), ie a total of 900 GeV.
Scientists and engineers are hoping to find out if the Higgs particle is unique or part of a larger particle family if there are supersymmetric particles or some other particle related to dark matter.
While the accelerator continues at the moment with the billionmillions collisions, the detectors LHC, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb present along its entire length (27 km) are on hand for collection and the analysis of the data generated.
Thus with the underoperation of the LHC n team of scientists checks everything trying to confirm that system, and algorithms will work fully and without errors, errors or failures when collisions start at 13 TeV.
Scientists say there will be very high particle collisions in June and if everything goes well, the accelerator is expected to gradually reach the maximum energy it can use, that is, around 6,5 TeV per radius or a total of 13 TeV.
