Large Hadron collider becomes world's highest energy particle accelerator
CERN's Large Hadron Collider has become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning.
Reports indicate that the Large Hadron Collider, popularly called the 'Big Bang machine', is going to skip medium-energy proton collisions, jumping straight to its maximum energy in 2013, after it finishes collecting lower-energy data and has its circuitry upgraded.