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Skip to main content Topics Higgs boson Neutrinos Dark matter Dark energy New physics Applications Full archive Follow Search A joint Fermilab SLAC publication LHC arrives at the next energy frontier 06 03 15 By Katie Elyce Jones Data collection has officially begun at the Large Hadron . Collider Maximilien Brice , CERN Today the Large Hadron Collider began collecting data for the first time in two . years The world's most powerful particle accelerator powered back on in April and saw its first record-energy collisions in May . Today it began colliding particles at a steady rate to provide data for . research This time around , the LHC is colliding particles at 13 trillion electronvolts , a 60 percent boost from its 2012 record of 8 . TeV Because we have higher energy , more particles are