<p>The world's largest machine developed by European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started operating last evening, 14-months after the fault caused one tonne of helium to leak into the 27-km long tunnel that houses it.<br /><br />"It's great to see beams circulating in the LHC again," CERN director-general Rolf Heuer said.<br /><br />"It happened faster than anyone could have dreamed of. Everything went very smoothly," said James Gillies, the organisation's director of communications.<br /><br />With the help of the LHC, scientist want to learn more about the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is crucial to our current understanding of physics. Although it is predicted to exist, scientists have never found it.<br />"This giant machine part will try to detect the elusive Higgs boson," Gillies said adding if everything continued to go well, CERN might try to reach a record-breaking beam energy of 1.2 trillion electron volts this weekend.<br /><br />The LHC will create conditions similar to those which were present moments after the Big Bang by smashing together beams of protons, BBC reported.<br /><br />The Big Bang is the cosmic explosion hypothesised to have marked the origin of the Universe.<br />The CERN has spent around 24 mn pound on repairing the machine.</p>
<p>The world's largest machine developed by European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started operating last evening, 14-months after the fault caused one tonne of helium to leak into the 27-km long tunnel that houses it.<br /><br />"It's great to see beams circulating in the LHC again," CERN director-general Rolf Heuer said.<br /><br />"It happened faster than anyone could have dreamed of. Everything went very smoothly," said James Gillies, the organisation's director of communications.<br /><br />With the help of the LHC, scientist want to learn more about the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is crucial to our current understanding of physics. Although it is predicted to exist, scientists have never found it.<br />"This giant machine part will try to detect the elusive Higgs boson," Gillies said adding if everything continued to go well, CERN might try to reach a record-breaking beam energy of 1.2 trillion electron volts this weekend.<br /><br />The LHC will create conditions similar to those which were present moments after the Big Bang by smashing together beams of protons, BBC reported.<br /><br />The Big Bang is the cosmic explosion hypothesised to have marked the origin of the Universe.<br />The CERN has spent around 24 mn pound on repairing the machine.</p>
