CANADA: The world’s largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced Thursday.
“Protons collided in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the record-breaking energy of 13 TeV (teraelectronvolts) for the first time,” the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said in a statement. The LHC’s previous highest energy for collisions was eight TeV, reached in 2012. It has the potential to be cranked up to 14 TeV.
Experiments at the collider are aimed at unlocking clues as to how the universe came into existence by studying fundamental particles, the building blocks of all matter, and the forces that control them.
