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2010Large Hadron Collider reaches record energyCERN achieves first 7 TeV proton collisionsScientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider achieved the first collisions at 7 teraelectronvolts, a new record designed to search for the Higgs boson and other physics beyond the Standard Model. The milestone came after more than a year of repairs following a 2008 malfunction. It marked the start of the collider's main research program.