{"id":241264,"date":"2026-07-21T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-large-hadron-collider-is-being-upgraded-so-that-it-can-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-higgs-boson"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T10:22:25","slug":"the-large-hadron-collider-is-being-upgraded-so-that-it-can-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-higgs-boson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/the-large-hadron-collider-is-being-upgraded-so-that-it-can-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-higgs-boson","title":{"rendered":"The Large Hadron Collider is being upgraded so that it can unlock the secrets of the Higgs boson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-large-hadron-collider-is-being-upgraded-so-that-it-can-unlock-the-secrets-of-the-higgs-boson.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world\u2019s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations and entered a long shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>While no particle collisions are taking place at <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/topics\/large-hadron-collider-160\" target=\"_blank\">the LHC<\/a>, thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians are dismantling parts of the machine, installing new technologies and preparing one of the most ambitious upgrades ever attempted in experimental physics.<\/p>\n<p>When it switches on again, around 2030, it will become the <a href=\"https:\/\/home.cern\/science\/accelerators\/hilumi-lhc\/\" target=\"_blank\">High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC)<\/a>, capable of delivering roughly seven times more data than the collider that discovered the Higgs boson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world\u2019s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing protons together at nearly the speed of light, CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has stopped operations and entered a long shutdown. While no particle collisions are taking place at the LHC, thousands of scientists, engineers and technicians are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}