The Large Hadron Collider is entering a four-year shutdown for a $1.5 billion upgrade that will transform it into the High-Luminosity LHC.

Equipped with advanced superconducting magnets and AI-powered data analysis, the upgraded accelerator will produce up to ten times more particle collisions than before. Scientists hope the unprecedented flood of data will reveal new insights into dark matter, the Higgs boson, and the fundamental forces that shaped the universe in the moments after the Big Bang.

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