'Big Bang' machine seeking new horizons in Physics post 'God Particle' success

The amped-up world's most powerful particle accelerator, Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is set for its second run after two years of renovation to seek new horizons in Physics after the God Particle success.

Rolf Heuer, director general of CERN, spoke of a "new era for physics" during the press briefing, held at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland and said that he wanted to see the first light in the dark universe and if that happens, then he would believe that nature was kind to him.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has undergone important upgrades and repairs over the past two years since its planned shutdown. The machine now boasts new magnets, superior cryogenics, higher voltage and higher energy beams that would allow it to run at nearly double the collision energy of the first run.

The first circulating beams of protons in the LHC are planned for the week beginning 23 March, and by late May to early June it aims to be running at 13 TeV.

One hope was that these higher energies would allow physicists to extend the search for new particles, and to put further constraints on speculative theories such as supersymmetry, which could extend the standard model of particle physics.