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The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator is set smash protons together on April 8 to search for invisible particles secretly powering our universe.
Theories have suggested there are 17 different particle groups and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, confirmed the existence of one using its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012.
Now, the team has restarted LHC after a two-year hibernation with hopes of unraveling more mysterious - specifically dark matter.
Scientists began preliminary tests by sending billions of protons around LHC's ring of superconducting magnets to boost their energy and ensure the $4 billion machine was in working condition.
And next month, CERN will shoot them down a 17-mile-long tunnel at nearly the speed of light to recreate conditions a second after the Big Bang.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, announced it restarted the underground Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this month, sending proton beams around the massive circular machine
LHC will continue the experiment until later this year when it will then be put under a long hibernation for CERN to transform it into the next version - the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).
LHC sits 300 feet underground at the border of France and Switzerland and first went live on September 10, 2008.
The LHC works by smashing protons together to break them apart and discover the subatomic particles that exist inside them, and how they interact.
CERN researchers use protons due to them being heavier particles.
The weight allows much lower energy loss per turn through the accelerator than other particles like photon.
Scientists turned on the powerful machine this month, injecting it with several proton beams.
The team is now gearing up to send the beams down the 17-mile-long tunnel near the speed of light with hopes of unraveling mysterious about our universe
On March 8, teams from around the world waited inside the underground lab for a glimpse at the beams circling inside the ring of LHC.
The circular shape was by design as it allows for more time to accelerate the beam of particles so higher energy can be reached.
But the first attempt this month did not go as planned after the beam only
