Reference News Network reported on April 24 that scientists at the European Center for nuclear research restarted the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, according to UPI reported on April 22. The world’s most powerful particle accelerator was suspended three years ago due to maintenance and upgrading.

CERN said that the first proton beams began to rotate in the opposite direction, marking the official start of data collection for the purpose of searching for dark matter, which is expected to last for four years.

The collider works by making particles collide with each other so that scientists can study what’s inside. After increasing the energy and intensity of the beam, data collection is expected to begin in the summer.

Rodry Jones, head of CERN’s beam division, said: “these beams circulate as they inject energy and contain relatively few protons. High intensity, high-energy collisions will take months. But the first beams mark the successful restart of the accelerator after a long period of hard work.”

The collider was launched in 2008. Thanks to extensive upgrades, its third run is expected to produce a record number of collisions, with a record energy of 13.6 trillion electron volts. This will enable physicists around the world to study the Higgs boson in detail.

Higgs boson, also known as “God particle”, is a kind of subatomic particle that is difficult to capture found in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Scientists believe that it may be a basic part of the universe.

Reference News Network reported on April 24 that scientists at the European Center for nuclear research restarted the Large Hadron Collider on Friday, according to UPI reported on April 22. The world’s most powerful particle accelerator was suspended three years ago due to maintenance and upgrading.

CERN said that the first proton beams began to rotate in the opposite direction, marking the official start of data collection for the purpose of searching for dark matter, which is expected to last for four years.

The collider works by making particles collide with each other so that scientists can study what’s inside. After increasing the energy and intensity of the beam, data collection is expected to begin in the summer.

Rodry Jones, head of CERN’s beam division, said: “these beams circulate as they inject energy and contain relatively few protons. High intensity, high-energy collisions will take months. But the first beams mark the successful restart of the accelerator after a long period of hard work.”

The collider was launched in 2008. Thanks to extensive upgrades, its third run is expected to produce a record number of collisions, with a record energy of 13.6 trillion electron volts. This will enable physicists around the world to study the Higgs boson in detail.

Higgs boson, also known as “God particle”, is a kind of subatomic particle that is difficult to capture found in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Scientists believe that it may be a basic part of the universe.