CERN Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider Until 2030 for Major Upgrade
The LHC has entered a four-year shutdown for upgrades. It will return in 2030 as the High-Luminosity LHC, colliding 10 times more particles.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that will upgrade it to its most capable form yet.
The particle accelerator was switched off on June 29 and is scheduled to come back online in 2030 as the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC). Improvements will allow it to smash together roughly 10 times more particles than its original design. That increase in data could help spark new discoveries in fundamental physics and shed light on the nature of dark matter, antimatter, and the early universe.