Engineers at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are upgrading and repairing their particle accelerator in the hope to discover more sub-atomic particles.
The 70 million pound ($A101 million) project involves replacing 10,000 connections between super-conducting magnets with a shunt to ensure the electrical current is carried across the LHC.
BBC's Pallab Ghosh reports that the upgrade will occur over the next 18 months, meaning one shunt is replaced every three minutes.
The LHC is already the world's most powerful particle accelerator but the repairs are expected to double its power, allowing researchers to understand more about sub-atomic particles like the Higgs Boson.
"There's more to come. We don't know what we're going to find in the next few years of LHC running. We could find a whole new realm of particle physics," said Atlas Experiment Project Leader, Dr Pippa Wells.
