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PREPARE for a voyage into the unknown. As 快猫短视频 went to press, experiments were about to restart at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva in Switzerland.
Months of tests mean the LHC is now ready to look for brand-new particles as protons begin regularly colliding at record energy levels this Wednesday, says David Newbold of the University of Bristol, UK, part of the CMS experiment at CERN.
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Test collisions at 13 teraelectronvolts could already have produced exotic material like dark matter, but detecting it requires sustained collisions in order to build up enough data. 鈥淒epending on which theory you believe, there could be dark matter particles being produced all the time, but they are very hard to spot,鈥� says Newbold.
鈥淭here could be dark matter particles being produced all the time. It really is a voyage of discovery鈥�
Physicists will also be on the hunt for supersymmetric particles 鈥� heavier versions of the standard particles. 鈥淚t really is a voyage of discovery at this point,鈥� says Newbold. 鈥淭here is this prospect of finding something completely new and not predicted by anybody at all.鈥�
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