The European Organization for Nuclear Research, says it succeeded in smashing together protons at 13 trillion electronvolts late Wednesday.
Scientists operating the world’s biggest particle collider say they set this new energy record before the massive machine’s full restart in June.
The LHC is located in a 27-kilometer (16.8-mile) tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border
Yesterday’s record is close to the 14 trillion electronvolts maximum that the Large Hadron Collider is designed to achieve.
CERN said that the collisions were a key part of the tests being done to prepare for a second run of experiments starting next month.
The collider underwent a $150 million upgrade after the first run, which produced results that helped confirm the existence of an elusive subatomic particle, known as the Higgs boson.
Canadian scientists, from universities across Canada are part of the global partnership involved in the experiments at CERN
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