https://phys.org/news/2018-06-cern-major-reap-atom-smasher.html > CERN says the upgrade is expected to produce greater data starting in 2026. They say the collider ringing the French-Swiss border near Geneva has worked well since operations began in 2010. > CERN, perhaps most famous for confirming the subatomic Higgs boson six years ago, says the budget for the High-Luminosity LHC is about $950 million. Explore further: Key experiment at world's biggest atom smasher gets upgrade