MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - The European...

Experiments using Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were suspended last September shortly after a successful start due to a serious fault between two superconducting magnets and a subsequent helium leak into the tunnel housing the device.

Speaking at a news conference in RIA Novosti on Friday, Rolf-Dieter Heuer said the particle collider would initially run at 3.5 TeV per proton beam, or one-fourth of the projected energy output, "because it would allow the LHC operators to gain experience of running the machine safely."

He added that the device could reach the top energy output of 14 TeV per beam sometime after 2011.

The collider, located 100 meters under the French-Swiss border with a circumference of 27 km, enables scientists to shoot sub-atomic particles round an accelerator ring at almost the speed of light, channeled by powerful fields produced by superconducting magnets.

In order to fire beams of protons round the vast underground circular device, the

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