GENEVA, Nov 21, (AFP) -The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.
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“The first tests of injecting sub-atomic particles began around 1600 (1500 GMT),” CERN spokesman James Gillies told AFP.
He said the injections lasted a fraction of a second, enough for “a half or even a complete circuit” of the Large Hadron Collider built in a 27-kilometre (17-mile) long tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.
CERN's Director General Rolf Heuer said later the scientists had successfully managed to get particle beams once again circulating in the particle accelerator, and that they had been able to go ahead earlier than expected.
The LHC promises to unlock scientific mysteries about the creation of the Universe and the fundamental nature of matter. |
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