World's largest particle accelerator restarts for 2017 run
Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, has begun circulating proton beams for the first time this year following a 17-week-long technical stop. The 2017 run aims to increase collisions and the percentage of beams from which physics data can be extracted, to discover new particles, said CERN. The 27-km-long accelerator has helped confirm the 'God Particle' Higgs boson.