Modernization at CERN: particle accelerator switched off: operation again from 2030

“Goodbye, LHC, and thanks for all the collisions,” wrote CERN at 05:52 and 15 seconds. “Let’s head to the Hilumi LHC.” Shortly afterwards, on the live LHC page, a blue bar could be seen with the bold inscription: “No beam” – i.e. no more proton beam in the 27 kilometer long ring-shaped accelerator.

Among other things, physicists hope to find out more about the nature of dark matter from 2030 onwards with more powerful magnets and better detectors. Together with dark energy, it makes up around 95 percent of the universe. However, it has never been possible to detect the particles behind dark matter.