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World's biggest atom smasher worth $1 billion to get upgrade
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Saturday, 16 June, 2018
The $950-million Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva, is getting an upgrade that will let researchers collect up to 10 times more data by 2026. The 27-km-long particle accelerator, which produces one billion proton-proton collisions per second, will be fitted with 130 new magnets. LHC discovered the Higgs boson in 2012 that led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
read more at The Guardian