S N A P C H A T Taking science to the future The place where cutting edge engineering, technology, the best scientific minds and the science of the future becomes the science of the present has kicked off again with its latest set of scientist experiments to push the boundaries of established physics. CERN’s (a European research collaboration based outside Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border) Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 that will give us an improved understanding of fundamental physics. In late March the most powerful collider in the world was switched back on after its annual Northern Hemisphere winter break. The accelerator complex and experiments have been fine-tuned using low-intensity beams and pilot proton collisions, and now the LHC and the experiments are ready to take an abundance of data. Following a short commissioning period, the LHC operators will now increase the intensity of the beams so that the machine produces a larger number of collisions. This is the second year the LHC will run at a collision energy of 13 TeV. During the first phase of Run 2 in 2015, operators mastered steering the accelerator at this new higher energy by gradually increasing the intensity of the beams. EN 14 June 2016
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