This composite image
of the Large Hadron Collider was created by a 3D artist. The beam pipes
are represented as clear tubes, with counter-rotating proton beams
shown in red and blue.Credit: Daniel Dominguez/CERN
The world's largest particle collider is gearing up for another run of smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light. After a two-year hiatus for upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart this year, and is expected to be twice as powerful as it was during its first run.
In 2012, the LHC helped to find evidence of the Higgs boson, the particle that is thought to explain how other particles get their mass. The discovery vindicated theoretical calculations made decades ago, and bolstered the Standard Model, the current framework of particle physics.
With the LHC slated to run at energies more powerful than any previous particle accelerator, what are physicists hoping to find now?
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