The engine behind the 'God particle' is hunting for dark matter
Breadcrumb Trail Link World Author: Washington Post Pranshu Verma, The Washington Post FILE PHOTO: An overview of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014. REUTERS/Pierre Albouy/File Photo Article content Ten years ago, a team operating the world’s largest particle impactor made history by discovering the Higgs boson particle, a key discovery for understanding the creation of the universe, earning it the nickname “God particle.” Advertisement 2 This ad hasn’t loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content After a lag of more than three years for upgrades, the accelerator, run by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is collecting data again. This time to prove the existence of another mysterious substance – dark matter. Although most scientists believe dark matter i