Geneva – The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is due for re-launch after the removal of a fragment of metal in one of its magnet circuits which has been causing the delay of putting back the machine in service. This is as it was reported by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) who confirmed that it was just a matter of days before the machine which is the largest collider in the world would begin its operations.
The fragment was disabled by sending a 400-amp jolt of electrical current through to it which melted like a household electrical fuse strip metal leading to the disappearance of the short circuit on the collider.
However, it is not all done as scientist are expected to carry out more tests on the circuits around the fault area. This is going to cause another two –week delay into restarting the machine.
The collider which is of 27-kilometre (17-mile) length is in a a ring-shaped tunnel on the French-Swiss border into which two beams of protons are usually sent in opposite directions. The same beams are bent by powerful magnets to enable them collide at common points around the track.
The collisions ramping of up to twice the power of the first runs resulted to the discovery of Higgs boson. This was in 2012 according to scientists in CERN which happens to be the top research centers globally.
The product captured in the collider’s detectors as a result of the collision is usually analyzed by scientists globally for any symbols of new evidence about the cosmos and more importantly how it goes about its operations right from the elementary particle level.
The scientist have since indicated that their main aim is to determine the nature of the unseen dark matter that has been described to make up about 80 percent of the total mass of the universe. They are hopeful too that they will be able to get theoretical concepts as well as possible extra dimensions.