The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) set a new...

"This is the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, and an important step on the way to the start of the LHC research program. The first attempt to collide beams at 7 TeV (3.5 TeV per beam) will follow on a date to be announced in the near future," CERN said.

The LHC was restarted at the end of February and repeated its record collision energy output of 2.36 tera-electron volts (TeV) on March 8. Scientists plan to force the particles to collide at 7 TeV by the end of March. The collider will run at 7 TeV through next year, before being shut down for about a year to upgrade to full design energy of 14 TeV.

Speaking at a March 8 news conference, CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer said the LHC could start generating its first scientific breakthroughs into elusive dark matter as early as later this year, even while operating at half-capacity.

Heuer told reporters then that by now, 5% of the universe can be "explained by the standard model," but

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