article_snippet.sent: The world's largest atom-smashing machine is most famous for proving the existence of the Higgs boson - but scientists hope The world's largest atom-smashing machine will now unlock even more fundamental secrets of the universe.
article_snippet.sent: Physicists at Cern, the Geneva-based organisation which runs the LHC, are aiming to see dark matter for the first time ever thanks to the device's upgrade.
article_snippet.sent: British scientist Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize after the discovery of the particle, which British scientist Peter Higgs and others predicted would exist but which had never been seen until the construction of the LHC.
article_snippet.sent: It took 50 years to find the Higgs boson and 20 years to build the machine, and the machine will be running at least until 2035, so our can be patient.'
article_snippet.sent: When experiments begin experiments will be smashed together in four giant detectors located around the beam ring, sparking the creation of new particles and hopefully opening up a new era in physics.
article_snippet.sent: You can think of The LHC as the world's greatest microscope looking into the heart of matter.
article_snippet.sent: And The LHC could cast light on antimatter, particles which are identical to normal matter but with the opposite charge.
article_snippet.sent: The current Standard Model explains the known particles and forces, and the discovery of the Higgs completed that picture.
article_snippet.sent: The LHC might be able to produce dark matter particles for example, which would be glimpsed in the debris of collisions detected by the Atlas and CMS experiments. '
article_snippet.sent: And Professor Dave Newbold, who heads the particle physics group at the University of Bristol, added: 'The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 was a huge breakthrough, but the real excitement starts now. '
article_snippet.sent: The LHC will allow us to probe further than ever before, and to explore brand new scientific territory such as dark matter.'