The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) today begins a new phase of work, within which the facility will reach its maximum energy of 13.6 TeV.

Beams of charged particles have been circulating in the system since April, when the LHC was launched after a three-year break for modernization and maintenance. Now, according to a press release, operators are ready to announce "stable beams" - a condition that allows you to turn on all subsystems and begin collecting data that will be used for physical analysis. The LHC will operate around the clock for nearly four years at a record energy of 13.6 TeV, providing more precision and discovery potential than ever before.

We will focus the proton beams at the interaction points to a beam size of less than 10 microns to increase the collision frequency. Compared to the Run 1 phase, in which the Higgs boson was found with 12 inverse femtobarns, now in the Run 3 phase we get 280 inverse femtobarns. This is a significant increase, opening the way to new discoveries.

We will measure the strength of the interaction of the Higgs boson with matter particles with unprecedented accuracy and continue our search for the results of the decay of the Higgs boson into dark matter particles, as well as the search for additional Higgs bosons

Recall that earlier scientists said that in the new phase they would look for physics outside the Standard Model, that is, “new physics”.

Scientists also expect that the ATLAS and CMS detectors will record more collisions during the Run 3 phase than during the previous two phases combined.

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