CERN's large hadron collider to restart in late March

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Thursday announced the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be restarted during the final week of March, pending final tests.

The LHC, running for 27km in circular tunnel 100 meters underground, is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, which straddles the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

CERN noted the Run 2 of the LHC followed a two-year technical stop that prepared the machine for running at almost double the energy of the first run.

After substantial consolidation and improvements the LHC will restart at an energy of 6.5 TeV per beam, which will open up a new window for discovery - collisions at a total energy of 13 TeV are expected late spring.

During the LHC first run period, it discovered the Higgs boson, proving the fundamental particle created origins of mass in the Standard Model theory.

"The new energy-level will enable us to look for heavier particles with three times more mass than we found before," Andrey Golutvin, a LHC experimental physicist said in a press conference.

He also added at the higher energies physicists will be able to detect the Higgs-Boson much more often.

"After discovering the Higgs-Boson, now it is very important to improve the accuracy of the measurements, to better understand the parameters of that particle," he said. Endit