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How the revamped Large Hadron Collider will hunt for new physics

The particle-smashing machine has fired up again — sparking fresh hope it can find unusual results.
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An engineer works in the open ALICE Inner Tracking System detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Detectors at the ALICE experiment were revamped during the Large Hadron Collider’s 2018–22 shutdown. Credit: Maximilien Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN

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The hunt for new physics is back on. The world’s most powerful machine for smashing high-energy particles together, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has fired up after a shutdown of more than three years. Beams of protons are once again whizzing around its 27-kilometre loop at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory near Geneva. By July, physicists will be able to switch on their experiments and watch bunches of particles collide.

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Nature 605, 604-607 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01388-6

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