World's Largest Particle Smasher Halts for Upgrade to Boost Hunt for Dark Matter
The upgrade will replace components in 1.2 kilometres of tunnel and boost collision rates by a factor of 10, CERN said.
- On Monday, June 29, 2026, the Large Hadron Collider will shutter operations for four years of renovations designed to dramatically boost its collision capacity and unlock mysteries of dark matter.
- The $1.5 billion upgrade will transform the facility into the High Luminosity LHC, replacing components across 1.2 kilometres of the 27-kilometre tunnel and installing new superconducting magnets to concentrate particle beams.
- CERN anticipates the upgraded facility will produce around 380 million Higgs bosons over its lifetime. HL-LHC project chief Markus Zerlauth said increased collisions will 'collect up to 100 times more data'.
- Future operations will generate between 140 and 200 collisions per packet meeting, requiring artificial intelligence to select events in real time. Research physicist Nedaa-Alexandra Asbah insisted 'AI does not replace physicists'.
- Scheduled to resume in June 2030, the upgraded collider aims to produce two Higgs Bosons simultaneously for the first time, potentially providing clues about how the Universe evolved after the Big Bang.
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Bangkok PostWorld's largest particle smasher halts for upgrade to boost hunt for dark matter
The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically boost its collision-capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries of the Universe: dark matter. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- a 27-kilometre proton-smashing circular tunnel at the heart of Europe's physics lab CERN near Geneva -- has most famously been used to prove the existence of the Higgs b…
The LHC at the Cern will be shut down and modernised for four years. Scientists expect significantly more particle collisions and thus more research data in the future.
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The Cern in Geneva wants to upgrade it during this time in order to increase the chance for new physical discoveries.
The world's most powerful particle accelerator, Large Hadron Collider – LCH, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, will cease its activity for months to be improved for four years. The aim is to significantly improve the particle-shocking capacity and the potential for unlocking one of the greatest mysteries, the [...]
Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is to benefit from a significant increase in performance, announced physicists from the European Organization for...
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