Feb 05
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is about to embark on a non-stop run through late 2011 at up to 7 tera-electron volts (TeV) in order to find the elusive Higgs Boson particle, Reuters reports.
Scientists at CERN hope that the particle will appear sometime during the lengthy experiment, once they power up the LHC again. The goal is to shed light on gives mass to matter.
The report said that even if scientists don’t see the particle, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist; scientists are also planning a longer run at the LHC’s highest possible energy level, 14 TeV, beginning in 2013.
The LHC ran into some trouble after an explosion caused significant damage back in 2008, shortly after powering up for the first time. (Image credit: CERN)
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