 This large Hadron Collider, or LHC for short, is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Here's how it works. Using hydrogen with the electrons removed, proton packs containing billions of protons are accelerated down a linear accelerator like we saw at Slack. The first booster accelerates the protons to 91.6% of the speed of light. The protons are then flung into the proton synchrotron. They circle here for 1.2 seconds, reaching 99.9% of the speed of light. The protons are then channeled into the super proton synchrotron. Here they are accelerated to the point where they can enter the large Hadron Collider. Here there are two pipes to carry the proton beams in opposite directions. Each beam is accelerated to 7 teraelectron volts. That's 7 trillion electron volts. And because they are traveling at each other, the total energy of a collision is 14 trillion electron volts. This ought to be enough to kick the Higgs field into producing a Higgs boson. As the protons approach each other, they are traveling at 99.99999% of the speed of light. The actual collision creates hundreds of particles that scatter out in all directions. Detecting and measuring the trajectories, momentum, and energy of each of these particles is the next big step.