Large Hadron Collider retired for upgrades

After thirteen years of experiments, CERN's Large Hadron Collider shut down today for upgrades. The twenty-seven kilometer ring, buried beneath the French-Swiss border, will be transformed into the High Luminosity LHC over the coming years. Rather than dismantled, it will be enhanced to generate more particle collisions and yield sharper data for physics research. According to Boing Boing, the upgraded collider will resume operations with significantly greater capabilities.

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