Large Hadron Collider restarts

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have been given a tough deadline to find the God Particle, reports Nick Collins from Geneva.

Particle collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. The machine will undergo a final 
upgrade at the end of this year and will then start looking for the secrets of 'dark matter’ 

By Nick Collins

Here under the rolling hills on the French-Swiss border near Geneva, the biggest machine ever built is preparing for a new assault on its elusive quarry. Because it is now make-or-break time for the scientistsat Cern, Europe’s nuclear research laboratory, as their titanic Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the most powerful atom smasher in the world, gears up for a frantic rush to corner the elusive Higgs boson, better (if inaccurately) known as the God Particle./.../