Geneva, Switzerland — The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the operator of the world’s largest atom smasher, announced on Friday that they were able to pump up energy production of the machine more than three times than what they have previously achieved.
CERN reported that the Large Hadron Collider was able to produce more than 3.5 trillion electron volts during a run-up experiment, adding that proton beams shooting around the 27km tunnel (shooting at both directions) were much more powerful than it was expected.
The tunnel was located under the Swiss-French border near Geneva. It will be recalled that the atom smasher was declared as the most powerful machine that can produce energy.
According to the organization, they will start the next major development with the Hadron Collider in the coming days by colliding beams of protons. The new experiment aims to establish energy development and discover the origin of the universe.
The research group hopes to find the forces making up an atom and how it can be reproduce for energy development.
The scientists also hope to prove the existence of a dark energy and other matters. The tiny-scale approach can also gives scientists a perspective on things and how it happened during and after Big Bang, a theory about the creation of the universe.
CERN also revealed that they were able to break records and had several success in its experiments with the collider since it was repaired some 14 months ago.
CERN was also able to ramp up the energy capacity of the atom smasher after the two and a half month break due to severe winter conditions. The scientists said that they can now operate the machine at unprecedented level.
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