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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature

The Large Hadron Collider Atlas detector while under construction
The Large Hadron Collider has been given an upgrade ahead of its latest run, including the addition of powerful magnets designed to squeeze protons into finer, denser beams. Photograph: Cern/PA

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart on Friday after a three-year hiatus and is expected to resolve a scientific cliffhanger on whether a mysterious anomaly could point to the existence of a fifth fundamental force of nature.

The tantalising findings reported last year have reignited hopes that the 20 mile-long collider could deliver a second blockbuster discovery, more than a decade after the Higgs boson.

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