LHC smashes old collision records

The Large Hadron Collider is now producing about a billion proton-proton collisions per second. The LHC is colliding protons at a faster rate than ever before, approximately 1 billion times per second. Those collisions are adding up: This year alone the LHC has produced roughly the same number of collisions as it did during all of the previous years of operation together. This faster collision rate enables scientists to learn more about rare processes and particles such as Higgs bosons, which th...