European Organisation for Nuclear Research has announced that ,The world's biggest atom-smasher,Large Hadron Collider which has been shut down since it’s break down last September, will likely restart in November.
The machine is placed inside a 27-kilometre (17-mile) underground tunnel along the Franco-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) promises to unlock deep mysteries about the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter.
When the collider will be switched on, and at what power level, will be decided at a meeting of CERN scientists and officials later this week, said James Gilles, head of communications.
But the machine has been plagued with electrical glitches and faulty magnets designed to drive high-energy particles at close to the speed of light, leading to a series of delays.Designed to shed light on the origins of the universe, the LHC took nearly 20 years to complete and cost six billion Swiss francs (3.9 billion euros, 4.9 billion dollars) to build.
After more than a decade of painstaking work, the first proton beams were fired down the new accelerator in a blaze of publicity on September 10, 2008, only to break down nine days later due to a helium leak in its cooling system.
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