The world's biggest atom smasher could be getting an upgrade.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), situated at the CERN laboratory on the Swiss-French border, was built over a decade ago with two goals in mind. First, to establish the existence of the Higgs boson, the cornerstone particle of the Standard Model of particle physics, predicted all the way back in the 1960s; And second, to find any new particles, especially ones that could validate one of the many competitors to physical theories beyond the Standard Model.
