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Last Friday, and after three long years of stoppage for updates and maintenance (including additional delays due to the pandemic), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) restarted again for its third and most ambitious round of activity. More powerful than ever, with new tools and capabilities, the greatest machine ever built by man is now poised to tackle some of the mysteries that physics has yet to explain.
If all the tests and the initial tests that will be carried out during this month go well, the physicists will start their experiments in June and will gradually increase the energy of the collisions, until they reach the maximum power (a record energy of 13 .6 TeV, or 13.6 billion electron volts) by the end of July, kicking off nearly three new years of research.