The world's largest particle accelerator is about to resume operation

The world's largest particle accelerator (LHC) of the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) will resume operations next September. The cost of repairing particle accelerators is up to about 34.7 million USD and the repair time lasts 1 year.

At the 9/2 press conference in Chamonix, France, CERN's representative said the LHC will be restarted in September and the first experiment will be conducted in October.

According to the work program announced by CERN board of directors, scientists will have the first data obtained from the LHC experiment for research in October 2010. About the problem of the LHC malfunction, CERN said there were errors at the electrical connection between the superconducting cable segments of the machine. Following this problem, the experts discovered two more connectors with the same phenomenon.

In the first test run on September 10 last year, with 120 powerful electromagnets operating at minus 271.3 degrees Celsius, CERN physicists successfully fired 33 beams of proton clockwise. and then in the opposite direction in a pipeline of LHC. This round pipe is 27km long, installed at a depth of 100m in the border areas of France and Switzerland. But two days later, the LHC had to shut down due to a large leak of helium gas.

LHC is designed to uncover the secret of the origin of the universe. Scientists hope to test for two beams of protons moving in opposite directions in the accelerator colliding at speeds close to the speed of light that can reproduce at a small scale "Big Bang" ( Big Bang) created the universe 13.7 billion years ago and has since learned about the universe.

The cost of researching and manufacturing LHC is estimated at US $ 5.46 billion and this project has lasted for nearly 20 years.